War and Peace
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Tags: Classics, Novel, Russian
ISBN:067003469X
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Perhaps one of the most revered works in all of literature, Tolstoy's War and Peace is an epic story of Russian life in the days of Napoleon. Here are the sagas of five families who must face the ups and downs of history's wheel of fortune. As the French invade Russia, the continuing heat of battle throws human dramas into sharp relief, bringing essential experiences, struggles, and questions of life and death, love and loss, spirituality and despair, to the forefront.
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About the Author
Born into an aristocratic Russian family, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was able to enjoy a life of luxury from the very first. Throughout his life, however, and perhaps inspired by personal losses from which even his financial comfort could not protect him, he remained intrigued by philosophical questions about the nature of human existence. Through military service and well into his career as a writer, Tolstoy sought higher truths and found the materialistic lifestyle of many around him to be quite empty. Best known for his novels Anna Karenina, War and Peace, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy was an extremely prolific writer, with a full catalog of short stories, plays, and non-fiction to his name.
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"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist--I really believe he is Antichrist--I will have nothing more to do with you ...
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