War and Peace (Revised by Amy Mandelker 2010)

May 2023 - epub format revised and verified by zardox (no changes to book content). Genre: Literature ebook, 1,393 pages Paperback, 1350 pages Published: 1869 Edition: Oxford World’s Classics (2010) Goodreads Best Books of the 19th Century Greatest Books (amalgamated list of best books) Translated by: Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude (Oxford, 1928–37) Edited, revised and Introduction by: Amy Mandelker (2010) 'If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.' Isaac Babel Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. Balls and soirées alternate with councils of war and the machinations of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles with everyday human passions in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. The prodigious cast of characters, both great and small, seem to act and move as if connected by threads of destiny as the novel relentlessly questions ideas of free will, fate, and providence. Yet Tolstoy's portrayal of marital relations and scenes of domesticity is as truthful and poignant as the grand themes that underlie them. In this revised and updated version of the definitive and highly acclaimed Maude translation, Tolstoy's genius and the power of his prose are made newly available to the contemporary reader.