War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)

Type

Book

Authors

Leo Tolstoy

ISBN 10

0192833987

ISBN 13

9780192833983

Tags

Classics, Family Saga, Historical

Description

In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Yet while his historical vision ranged beyond national frontiers, his imaginative vision focused, with extraordinary intensity, on the lives of individuals, on the physical reality of human experience and its bewildering complexity. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, 'a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, 'of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation'. - from Amzon

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