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Against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, five aristocratic families in Russia are transformed by the vagaries of life, by war, and by the intersection of their lives with each other. Hundreds of characters populate War and Peace, many of them historical persons, including Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I, and all of them come to life under Tolstoyโs deft hand.
War and Peace is generally considered to be Tolstoyโs masterpiece, a pinnacle of Russian literature, and one of historyโs great novels. Tolstoy himself refused to call it that, saying it was โnot a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle.โ It contains elements of history, narrative, and philosophy, the latter increasing in quantity as the book moves towards its climax. Whatever it is called, it is a triumph whose breadth and depth is perhaps unmatched in literature.
This production restores the Russian given names that were anglicized by the Maudes in their translation, the use of Russian patronymics and diminutives that they eliminated, and Tolstoyโs original four-book structure.
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ColophonWar and Peace
was published in 1869 by
Leo Tolstoy.
It was translated from Russian in 1922 by
Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude.
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1807, Friedland,
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