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Tolstoy's masterpiece War and Peace belongs to the texts that marked a turning point in world literature. With its penetrating writing and realistic dialogues, the author composes the gallery of the upper Russian society during the time of the Napoleonic Wars.
The narrative is primarily structured around the lives of the Bolkonsky and Rostov families, intertwined with the activities of the young Count Pierre Bezukhov, as well as their relatives. The reader follows the thrilling evolution of the characters in the work, as it unfolds against a backdrop of war, advance, retreats, and maneuvers that are presented as victories or defeats depending on the perspective.
Carefully woven around them is the composition of the main and secondary characters in the work, and references to the events that marked the outcome of the French invasion of Russia, the burning of Moscow, and the defeat of Napoleon are not lacking.
However, the author goes beyond attributing these outcomes to the brilliant or unfortunate moves of the commander Kutuzov and General Napoleon. He exposes, sometimes with intense didacticism, the psyche of the peoples involved, the range of roles that war reserves for the parties involved, and the often hidden details that determine the outcome.
This magnificent historical novel reveals what changes history, how qualities such as love and ambition function in people, and how social classes, religious beliefs, wealth, law, and lawlessness - in other words, everything that determines historical progress in every era - affect events.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Leo Tolstoy
- Publisher
- Zacharopoulos S. I.
- Original Title
- War and Peace
- Publishers
- Zacharopoulos S. I.
- Type
- Historical Novel, Classic Literature
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 639
- Release Date
- 11/2011
- Publication Date
- 2011
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789602086148
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