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Loading... War and Peaceby Leo Tolstoy
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Member recommendations:roby72 recommends The Years by Virginia Woolf roby72 recommends History: A Novel by Elsa Morante roby72 recommends Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann Eustrabirbeonne recommends La Lumière des justes by Henri Troyat, "Well, Henri Troyat is no Tolstoy of course, and he did not pretend he was : he described himself as a mere "storyteller". Yet some of his fiction is real (see more) good, and this "cycle" is certainly his best. And of course, Russian-born Lev Aslanovich Tarasov had in mind the never-written sequel to "War and Peace" about the Decembrist uprising, which Tolstoy initiates in the final chapters with his hints at Pierre's active participation in a "society". Would Natasha, already a mother of four in 1820, have left her children behind to follow Pierre in Siberia, as other convicts' wives did?" ( see more recommendations and anti-recommendations for this book )
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0375760644, Paperback)Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle—all of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual’s place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War and Peace in the same category as the Iliad: “To read him . . . is to find one’s way home . . . to everything within us that is fundamental and sane.”(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:58:49 -0400) |
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