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by Leo Tolstoy (Author) "'WELL, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes.* ..." (more)
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“There remains the greatest of all novelists—for what else can we call the author of War and Peace?” —Virginia Woolf


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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, the Greatest Novel Ever Written, Jun 30 2004
By Bruce Hutton (Mesa, Arizona) - See all my reviews
This review is from: War and Peace (Hardcover)
I have read a lot of books and so I've scrabbled together a fairly intelligent idea of what a great book is; the definition has always been complicated and hard to explain, but I really needn't have bothered. The concept can be summed up in only three words: "War and Peace".
This is, simply, what all novels want to be when they grow up. The novel format is as varied as the writers who attempt it---to call "War and Peace" and "Ulysses" examples of the same art form seems ridiculous, but it's true---but ultimately a novel is a story about humans that explains what humanity is, or might be, or could have been; through these characters whose adventures you're following, you might learn something about what it means to be a human being. Every art form is about this experience, but only the novel can really hunker down and explore humanity in all its billions of shapes. You can learn not only facts and feelings but you can learn TIME by spending it in these pages. You can learn GROWTH. You can learn LIFE.
The main characters in "War and Peace" are Pierre Bezuhov, Prince Andrey Bolkonsky, and Natasha Rostov, three Russians caught in the middle of the war between their country and France in the years 1805 to 1813. Through them we meet dozens if not hundreds more characters, and through those dozens or hundreds we simply meet humanity itself. There's no other way to express it. The way Tolstoy tells us about his characters shows us ourselves; the identification is that strong. When a character falls, in battle or from old age, we feel that someone we know personally is gone, and we mourn them as though we couldn't simply flip back a few pages and resurrect them. The mass of life in this book is overwhelming: the story, like the title, is so big it seems impossible that you could find a moment of intimacy, but in fact there are hours here, even days. There is so much contained in the book, battles and weddings, parties and firestorms, evacuations and reunions, military history and moral philosophy, yet Tolstoy never loses track of his characters and how they are evolving while they watch the world tear itself apart and try, almost pitifully, to put itself back together again. It's an absolutely superhuman performance, one no writer could have dared hope for. Only one writer in history ever did it, and no writer ever will again.
"War and Peace" gets its reputation not from dusty old college professors, but from the sheer power of its story and the awesome scope of its understanding, and its ability to impart that understanding to the reader in the guise of a riveting tale of adventure and romance. The novel survives not because it's A CLASSIC, but because it is impossible to pick it up and not be sucked into its hurricane of humanity.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, It's Worth the Trouble, Aug 25 1999
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This review is from: War and Peace (Hardcover)
Although my blind urge to read the Great Classics has (thankfully) faded somewhat over the years in favor of reading whatever I damn please, I finally decided it was time to give War and Peace a try. After all, how can anyone who enjoys novels resist the lure of "the greatest novel of all time"? And Tolstoy himself was an unusually interesting man -- not a screwed-up genius but one who seemed to eventually figure it all out. It took me maybe a hundred pages to get into the rhythm of the book and figure out who all those characters with multisyllabic Russian names were. After that, it was totally engrossing and surprisingly easy reading. There's no point giving you a book report on what happens -- you're supposed to read it yourself -- but I do disagree with some of the other reviewers who didn't care for the sections describing Tolstoy's philosophy of history. I found those sections (a very small proportion of the book) fascinating, albeit a change of pace. This is part of what makes the book great. War and Peace is not just a story of what happens to a bunch of made-up people, but a major work of art expressing the wisdom of a great man.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful translation, Jun 5 2008
By Michael Cox "Michael JS Cox" (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Classics War And Peace (Paperback)
There are two contemporary translations of this greatest of books, this one and the more recent Pevear/Volokhonsky translation. Both are excellent. I recommend as background reading the following article by this translator, found in the Literary Encyclopedia, http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8682. In it, Briggs says "virtually everyone  even people in advantageous or privileged circumstances  finds the living of life a worrying and difficult business most of the time."

While keeping track of the characters is a mind numbing exercise in frustration, especially with the variations in characters names (nicknames, patronymic, last name, etc all interchanged throughout the novel for many of the major characters), once you dive in, you cannot leave it. A great summer read!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Translation
This is a most readable and attractive translation of the great novel. It give a sense of immediacy that is deeply satisfying.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A classic, but long
I put off reading this for years, though I'd taken on other books such as CRIME AND PUNISHMENT and some other Russian literature. Read more
Published on Mar 12 2007 by Asia

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Two opposites, not attracting, equal a great book
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5.0 out of 5 stars A deep and profound classic
WAR AND PEACE successfully captured life's promises, challenges, joys, triumphs, and losses in a way that no other novels has done before and after. Read more
Published on May 17 2006 by Sergey Vasilev

5.0 out of 5 stars A deep and profound classic
WAR AND PEACE successfully captured life's promises, challenges, joys, triumphs, and losses in a way that no other novels has done before and after. Read more
Published on April 20 2006 by Sergey Vasilev

5.0 out of 5 stars Epic proportions
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5.0 out of 5 stars Epic proportions
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5.0 out of 5 stars Epic proportions
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5.0 out of 5 stars A deep and profound classic
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