War and Peace. War and Peace opens in the Russian city of St. Petersburg in , as Napoleon’s conquest of western Europe is just beginning to stir fears in Russia. Many of the novel’s characters are introduced at a society hostess’s party, among them Pierre Bezukhov, the socially awkward but likeable illegitimate son of a rich count, and Andrew Bolkonski, the intelligent and ambitious son of a retired Cited by: · About War and Peace. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Often 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 Format: Paperback. The book, according to the author. “People who ought to hate me because of their quasi-religious views which I demolish, love me for those trifling things like War and Peace, etc., which seem to them very important.”. Tolstoy's Diaries, Volume 2, Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.
A Russian author of novels, short stories, plays, and philosophical essays, Count Leo Tolstoy () was born into an aristocratic family and is best known for the epic books War and Peace and Anna Karenina, regarded as two of the greatest works of Russian literature. After serving in the Crimean War, Tolstoy retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his. by Leo Tolstoy. 'If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.'. Isaac Babel Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected. Leo Tolstoy ( - ) Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole ( - ) "War and Peace" is a panoramic novel: It is its own justification, and perhaps needs no introduction. It always reminds the translator of a broad and mighty river flowing onward with all the majesty of Fate. On its surface, float swiftly by logs and stumps, cakes of.
V I Lenin, V I Lenin, Selected Works in 12 Volumes, quoted in Norton. “Tolstoy was 35, recently married, and the father of a newborn baby when he began War and Peace in ”. Rosamund Bartlett, "How Tolstoy rewrote the history of Russia", Daily Telegraph, January 3rd, War and Peace is a historical novel by Leo Tolstoy first published serially in – It depicts relationships between the Rostov, Bolkonsky, Bezukhov, and Kuragin families and follows their members as they fight in a war against Napoleon, marry, make and lose fortunes, and die over the course of about a decade. Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace—presented here in the first new English translation in forty years—is often considered the greatest novel ever written. At its center are Pierre Bezukhov, searching for meaning in his life; cynical Prince Andrei, ennobled by wartime suffering; and Natasha Rostov, whose impulsiveness threatens to destroy her happiness.
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