A gorgeous clothbound Hardcover Classics variation of Tolstoy’s nice novel, one of many undisputed masterpieces of worldwide literature
At a glittering society celebration in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are ruled by means of the chance of battle. Terror quickly engulfs the rustic as Napoleon’s military marches on Russia, and the lives of 3 kids are replaced perpetually. The tales of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a big solid, from aristocrats and peasants, to squaddies and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace, Tolstoy entwines grand themes—conflict and love, beginning and loss of life, unfastened will and fate—with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a powerful epic of human existence in all its imperfection and grandeur.
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