num_pages: 1386
description: Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadOften called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy's genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle--all of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual's place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War and Peace in the same category as the Iliad:  "To read him . . . is to find one's way home . . . to everything within us that is fundamental and sane."
language: English
title: War and Peace
titlecomplete: War and Peace
characters: Anna Scherer, Lise Bolkonskaya, Maria Bolkonskaya, Vera Rostova, Platon Karataev, Petya Rostov, Nikolai Rostov, Mikhail Kutuzov, Vasili Denisov, Adolf Berg, Fedja Dolochov, Sonya Rostova, Ilya Rostov, Nikolai Bolkonsky, Anna Drubetskaya, Pierre Bezukhov, Boris Drubetskoy, Anatole Kuragin, Helene Kuragina, Osip Basdeev, Mademoiselle Bourienne, Natasha Rostova, Prince Andrey Bokonsky
genres: Classics, Historical, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 318159
places: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Russia
awards: awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Audie Award
category: Literary Fiction & Classics and Nominee for Best Female Narrator
publisher: Modern Library