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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherKonemann
ISBN-103895086908
ISBN-139783895086908
eBay Product ID (ePID)569333
Product Key Features
Original LanguageRussian
Book TitleWar and Peace
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary
Publication Year1999
GenreFiction
AuthorLeo Tolstoi
Book SeriesCloth Bound Pocket Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height4 in
Item Weight61.4 Oz
Item Length7.2 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Number of Volumes4 vols.
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."