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title: War and Peace
author: Leo Tolstoy (Translated by Louis & Aylmer Maud)
year: 1938
condition: Two clean copies in excellent condition. Clean, tear-free, and stainless pages.
publisher: Heritage Press
pages: 815 (Part I) & 857 (Part II)
dimensions: 7.5 inches x 5 inches x 3 inches
description: Hardcover book bound in dark red linen. Decorated in silver text and decor along the spine and cover. Illustrated with full-color reproductions of famous nineteenth-century paintings by Vassily Verestchagin and numerous pen drawings by Fritz Eichenberg.
synopsis: War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men. As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most moving—and human—figures in world literature.