War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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'.
Henry Gifford was Winterstoke Professor of English at the University of Bristol
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192833983 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192833987 |
| Title | War and Peace |
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| Series | Oxford World's Classics Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1998-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 1386 |
| Prizes | Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003, Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003, Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 |
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