War and Peace

A stunning edition of Tolstoy's great novel, one of the undisputed masterpieces of world literatureThe last word of the landlords literature and the brilliant one at that. Fyodor DostoyevskyThe best ever Russian historical novel. Nikolai LeskovOne of the most remarkable books of our age. Ivan TurgenevThis is the first class work! This is powerful, very powerful indeed. Gustave FlaubertThe best novel that had ever been written. John GalsworthyThis work, like life itself, has no beginning, no end. It is life itself in its eternal movement. Romain RollandThe greatest ever war novel in the history of literature. Thomas MannThere remains the greatest of all novelists for what else can we call the author of ';War and Peace'? Virginia WoolfTolstoy is the greatest Russian writer of prose fiction. Vladimir NabokovWar and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.As Napoleon's army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgroundspeasants and nobility, civilians and soldiersas they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most movingand humanfigures in world literature.