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.
Publisher information
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN: 9781853260629
Number of pages: 1024
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 52 mm
Weight: 624 g
Language: English (Language of text), Russian (Original language of a translated text)
