num_pages: 1484
description: The English translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude – the version closest both in letter and in spirit to the original.Important letters by Tolstoy and early drafts of his introduction.A wide range of important Russian criticism, representing all the prominent literary schools, never before translated into English. Among the critics represented are Dmitri Pisarev, Nikolai Strakhov, Ivan Turgenev, Constantine Leontiev, Victor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, and V. I. Lenin.The best of Western criticism: articles and statements by Henry James, Percy Lubbock, Albert Cook, E. K. Brown, Ralph E. Matlaw, Isaiah Berlin, R. F. Christian, Georg Lukacs, and Käte Hamburger.
language: English
title: War and Peace
titlecomplete: War and Peace
characters: Anna Drubetskaya, Pierre Bezukhov, Nikolai Bolkonsky, Anatole Kuragin, Mademoiselle Bourienne, Sonya Rostova, Maria Bolkonskaya, Vasili Denisov, Boris Drubetskoy, Vera Rostova, Prince Andrey Bokonsky, Lise Bolkonskaya, Petya Rostov, Anna Scherer, Nikolai Rostov, Fedja Dolochov, Platon Karataev, Mikhail Kutuzov, Osip Basdeev, Natasha Rostova, Ilya Rostov, Adolf Berg, Helene Kuragina
genres: Russian Literature, War, Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Russia, Historical, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Literature
ratings_count: 318275
places: Moscow, Russia, St. Petersburg
awards: awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Audie Award
category: Literary Fiction & Classics and Nominee for Best Female Narrator
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc