β Scribed by Tolstoy, Leo
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Nominated as one of Americaβs best-loved novels by PBSβs The Great American Read Often 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. Tolstoyβs genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicleβall of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individualβs 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: βTo read him . . . is to find oneβ s way home . . . to everything within us that is fundamental and sane.β
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