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War and Peace

By Leo Tolstoy
Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
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War and Peace masterfully intertwines personal lives with the sweeping historical events of the Napoleonic wars and Russia's defence against French invasion. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Rostovs, Bolkonskys, Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, capturing both grand battles and intimate moments of domesticity. Tolstoy's epic explores themes of destiny, free will, and the human spirit with a prodigious cast rendered in vivid and poignant detail.
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Format: Hardback
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Ideal for readers interested in classic literature, historical fiction, and philosophical explorations of fate and free will, as well as those looking to engage deeply with Russian cultural and historical contexts.

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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. In this definitive Maude translation, Tolstoy's genius and the power of his prose are made newly available to the contemporary reader.

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"I don't understand it; I don't in the least understand why men can't live without wars. How is it that we women don't want anything of the kind, don't need it?"

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 with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives.

Balls and soirées 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 definitive and highly acclaimed Maude translation, Tolstoy's genius and the power of his prose are made newly available to the contemporary reader. In addition, this edition includes a new introduction by Amy Mandelker, revised and expanded notes, lists of fictional and historical characters, a chronology of historical events, five maps, and Tolstoy's essay Some Words about War and Peace.

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The Shepherd Express praises the new Oxford University Press translation as lucid and scholarly, noting Tolstoy's profound ability to engage with enduring philosophical and spiritual challenges about how to live amid change. This edition also offers extensive supplementary material enhancing the reader's understanding.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780198800545

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 September 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Contributors:

  • Translated by Louise Maude
  • Introduction by Amy Mandelker

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 67.0mm

Width: 146.0mm

Height: 225.0mm

Weight: 1167g

Pages: 1392

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Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Leo Tolstoy Literary Fiction Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection

About the Author

Amy Mandelker, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, has written books and articles on Russian literature and literary theory and was the editor of the Tolstoy Studies Journal. Her books include Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question and the Novel of Adultery (1993) and Approaches to World Literature: Teaching Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina', co-edited with Liza Knapp (2003).

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