War and Peace

War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy

In Russia's battle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a catastrophe that included all mankind.

More noteworthy than a chronicled chronicle, War and Peace is an certification of life itself,  a total picture, as a modern analyst put it, of everything in which individuals discover their joy and enormity, their melancholy and humiliation.

Tolstoy gave his individual endorsement to this interpretation, distributed here in a modern single volume version, which incorporates an presentation by Henry Gifford, and Tolstoy's imperative paper Some Words around War and Peace.