War and Peace: A Norton Critical Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393966473)

"Backgrounds and Sources" includes the publication history of War and Peace, selections from Tolstoy's letters and diaries as well as three drafts of his introduction to the novel that elucidate the its evolution, and an 1868 article by Tolstoy in which he reacts to his critics.

"Criticism" includes twenty essays, seven of them new, that provide diverse perspectives on the novel by Nikolai Strakhov, V. I. Lenin, Henry James, Isaiah Berlin, D. S. Mirsky, Kathryn Feuer, Lydia Ginzburg, Richard Gustafson, Gary Saul Morson, and Caryl Emerson, among others.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Author: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN-10: 039396647X
ISBN-13: 9780393966473
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 01/17/1996
Pages: 1200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.31lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.74w x 1.51d