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Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20,
1910)
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'If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.'
Leo Tolstoy's epic masterpiece ‘War
and Peace’ 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 with the national history that is played out in parallel with their
lives. Balls and soirees alternate with councils of war and the machinations of
statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles with everyday human passions
in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. The
prodigious cast of characters, both great and small, seem to act and move as if
connected by threads of destiny as the novel relentlessly questions ideas of
free will, fate, and providence. Yet Tolstoy's portrayal of marital relations
and scenes of domesticity is as truthful and poignant as the grand themes that
underlie them. In this revised and updated version of the definitive and highly
acclaimed Maude translation, Tolstoy's genius and the power of his prose are
made newly available to the contemporary reader.
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