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Product Identifiers
PublisherTIME Warner Libraries
ISBN-101879329026
ISBN-139781879329027
eBay Product ID (ePID)1560301
Product Key Features
Publication Year1991
Book TitleWar and Peace
TopicLiterary
Number of Pages1216 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorLeo Tolstoi
Book SeriesThe World's Great Bks.
FormatHardcover
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal891.734*
SynopsisOften called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace 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 characters in this massive chronicle-all of them fully realized and equally memorable. 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 and sane."