War and Peace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781979439220)

War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, which is regarded as a central work of world literature and one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements. The novel chronicles the history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. Portions of an earlier version, titled The Year 1805, were serialized in The Russian Messenger from 1865 to 1867. The novel was first published in its entirety in 1869. Tolstoy said War and Peace is "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle". Large sections, especially the later chapters, are a philosophical discussion rather than narrative. Tolstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call War and Peace a novel. Instead, he regarded Anna Karenina as his first true novel. The Encyclop dia Britannica states: "It can be argued that no single English novel attains the universality of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace".

Author: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN-10: 1979439222
ISBN-13: 9781979439220
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2017
Pages: 802
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.32lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.59d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.1
Point Value: 118
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10048 / War and Peace