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Title:
War & Peace
Genre:
History
Literature
Romance
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Series:
Ex Libris
Binding:
Paperback
Narrative:
Third Person
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Pages:
1218
Number of Chapters:
230
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:07:21
Synopsis:
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace (1869) is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit.
Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of fully realized and equally memorable characters that populate this massive chronicle.
The war is the backdrop to personal stories of members from four aristocratic families: the Bezuhovs, Bolkonskys, Kuragins, and Rostovs.
Love, death, war, spiritual struggle, and financial loss bring personal growth for the characters and underscore the main theme: the search for the meaning of life.
Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual’s place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War 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.”
Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of fully realized and equally memorable characters that populate this massive chronicle.
The war is the backdrop to personal stories of members from four aristocratic families: the Bezuhovs, Bolkonskys, Kuragins, and Rostovs.
Love, death, war, spiritual struggle, and financial loss bring personal growth for the characters and underscore the main theme: the search for the meaning of life.
Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual’s place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War 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.”
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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Publisher:
Vintage Books
Barcode:
9780099512240
Country:
Russia
Place of Printing:
GB
Publication Date:
2009-08-01
OCLC:
Historical Fiction
Number of Copies:
1
Language:
English
Publisher Location:
Gn
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$11.71
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-07-03
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:07:21
