War and Peace
- By: Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- Categories Books , Adults & General Classification , Literature & Fiction
- Stock Availability: Out Of Stock
- ISBN: 9781853260629
- Total Pages: 1024
- Available Book Formats: Paperback
- Year: 1993
Price:
JOD 4.50
This title is translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude. With an Introduction by Henry and Olga Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury.
'War and Peace' is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters.
Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery. This translation is one which received Tolstoy's approval.