War and Peace - (Everyman's Library Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Three-Volume Boxed Set<br>Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude <p/><i>War and Peace</i> 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. <p/>As Napoleon's army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds--peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers--as 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 moving--and human--figures in world literature. <p/>(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Among the great novels of the world, 'War and Peace' has long held pride of place because it fulfills, in its seamless interweaving of the historical and the personal, and its genius in registering the entire scale of human life, all the promise latent in the art of fiction itself.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"There remains the greatest of all novelists--for what else can we call the author of <i>War and Peace</i>?" --<b>Virginia Woolf</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Count Leo Tolstoy </b>(1828-1910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world fame. <p/><b>Aylmer Maude</b> (1858-1938) and <b>Louise Maude</b> (1855-1939) were English translators of Tolstoy's works, and Aylmer Maude also wrote his friend Tolstoy's biography. After living many years in Russia the Maudes spent the rest of their life in England translating Tolstoy's writing and promoting public interest in his work.
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