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Title:
War And Peace
Genre:
Fiction
History
Literature
Romance
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Series:
Ex Libris
Narrative:
Third Person
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Pages:
215
Number of Chapters:
230
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.”
Publisher:
Hodder Arnold
Barcode:
9780340990148
Number of Copies:
64
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:07:22
