· The Project Gutenberg eBook of War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. War and Peace is a historical novel by Leo Tolstoy first published serially in – It depicts relationships between the Rostov, Bolkonsky, Bezukhov, and Kuragin families and follows their members as they fight in a war against Napoleon, marry, make and lose fortunes, and die over the course of . In , Time magazine ranked War and Peace third in its poll of the 10 greatest books of all time. It is regarded as one of the central works of world literature. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, “no single English novel attains the universality of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace.”/5(19).
Leo Tolstoy - Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace: Voyna i mir (; War and Peace) contains three kinds of material—a historical account of the Napoleonic wars, the biographies of fictional characters, and a set of essays about the philosophy of history. Critics from the s to the present have wondered how these three parts cohere, and many have faulted Tolstoy for including the lengthy. War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - Free Ebook. Project Gutenberg. 66, free ebooks. 94 by graf Leo Tolstoy. About War and Peace. From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature.
V I Lenin, V I Lenin, Selected Works in 12 Volumes, quoted in Norton. “Tolstoy was 35, recently married, and the father of a newborn baby when he began War and Peace in ”. Rosamund Bartlett, "How Tolstoy rewrote the history of Russia", Daily Telegraph, January 3rd, Leo Tolstoy was born to an aristocratic Russian family in , and is considered to be one of the greatest authors of all time. His novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina best illustrate the dramatic scope and intense realism which became his trademark and stand as a testament to his extraordinary observational powers. The poet Matthew Arnold wrote that a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art, but a piece of life. War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published serially, then published in its entirety in
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