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War and Peace Mass market paperbound - 2007

by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy; Introduction by Pat Conroy

Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.


About this book

War and Peace, a Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy, is considered one of the world's greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina (1873–7), as his finest literary achievement. Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. 

First titled '1805' the first installment was published in the January 1865 edition of Russkiy Vestnik. It ran in serial form for 2 years before Tolstoy reworked much of the manuscript before publishing it in 1869 as War and Peace.

Summary

Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.

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Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.

First Edition Identification

-First American edition published in 6 volumes, translated by Clara Bell, in 1886, New York. Decorated in Brown Cloth. 

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  • Title War and Peace
  • Author Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy; Introduction by Pat Conroy
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 1455
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Classics
  • Date June 5, 2007
  • ISBN 9780451530547 / 0451530543
  • Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.86 x 4.26 x 2.06 in (17.42 x 10.82 x 5.23 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1200
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, War stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007300045
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Count Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University in 1844. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty in the army, serving as a junior officer in the Crimean War before retiring in 1857. In 1862, Tolstoy married Sophie Behrs, a marriage that was to become, for him, bitterly unhappy. His diary, started in 1847, was used for self-study and self-criticism; it served as the source from which he drew much of the material that appeared not only in his great novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), but also in his shorter works. Seeking religious justification for his life, Tolstoy evolved a new Christianity based upon his own interpretation of the Gospels. Yasnaya Polyana became a mecca for his many converts At the age of eighty-two, while away from home, the writer suffered a break down in his health in Astapovo, Riazan, and he died there on November 20, 1910.
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