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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy
Constance Garnett
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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 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.”
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Series: Modern Library Classics Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • File size: 3615 KB
  • Release date: December 2, 2008

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780307820396
  • Release date: December 2, 2008

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780307820396
  • File size: 2083 KB
  • Release date: December 2, 2008

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Classic Literature Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1200
Text Difficulty:9-12

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 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.”
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Classic Literature Fiction Literature