War and Peace

Author: Tolstoy, Leo, Claridge, Henry, Claridge, Olga, Maude, Louise, Maude, Aylmer, Carabine, Dr. Keith

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Published on 1 July 1993 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd as part of 'the Wordsworth Classics' series.

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.