War & Peace 2e (NCE) - Couverture souple

Tolstoy, Leo; Gibian, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 039396647X ISBN 13 : 9780393966473

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, marriage, age, and death. Though it is often called a novel today, it broke so many conventions of the form that it was not considered a novel in its time. Indeed, Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude.

This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction by Henry and Olga Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury.

War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters.

Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery. This translation is one which received Tolstoy's approval.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 039396647X
• ISBN 13: 9780393966473
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 1200