Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Tolstoy, Leo; Wilson, A.N.; Garnett, Constance |
| Publisher: | Modern Library |
| Date: | 7/9/2002 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Introduction by A. N. Wilson • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic ofthe Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian ’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle—allof them fully realized and equally memorable. Out of this complex narrative emergesa profound examination of the individual’s place in the historical process, one thatmakes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placedWar and Peace in the same category as the Iliad: “To read him . . . is to find one’ s way home . . . to everything within us that is fundamental and sane.”
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