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WAR AND PEACE
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| By: |
Leo Tolstoy, George Gibian (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
039396647X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780393966473 |
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| Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
| Pub. date: |
13 December, 1995 |
| Edition: |
Second Edition |
| Series: |
Norton Critical Editions 0 |
| Pages: |
1200 |
| Translated from: |
Russian |
| Description: |
This "Critical Edition" is based on the Maude translation. The text includes three maps of Napoleon's campaigns and battles in Russia, the publication history of "War and Peace", selections from Tolstoy's letters and diaries, three drafts of his introduction to the novel, and 20 critical essays. |
| Synopsis: |
"Backgrounds and Sources" includes the publication history of War and Peace, selections from Tolstoy's letters and diaries as well as three drafts of his introduction to the novel that elucidate the its evolution, and an 1868 article by Tolstoy in which he reacts to his critics. "Criticism" includes twenty essays, seven of them new, that provide diverse perspectives on the novel by Nikolai Strakhov, V. I. Lenin, Henry James, Isaiah Berlin, D. S. Mirsky, Kathryn Feuer, Lydia Ginzburg, Richard Gustafson, Gary Saul Morson, and Caryl Emerson, among others. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
WW Norton & Co |
| Prizes: |
Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003
Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003
Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 |
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