War and Peace: Premium Edition

Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. Portions of an earlier version having been serialized in the magazine The Russian Messenger between 1865 and 1867, the novel was first published in its entirety in 1869. Newsweek in 2009 ranked it top of its list of Top 100 Books. Tolstoy himself, somewhat enigmatically, said of War and Peace that it was "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less an historical chronicle."

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 01/01/2010
Pages: 822
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.08lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.01w x 1.63d
ISBN: 9781450559492

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

About the Author
Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy; September 9 [O.S. August 28] 1828 - November 20 [O.S. November 7] 1910), was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction and are available from Classic Books Publishing. Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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