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- Published on: 1870
- Binding: Paperback
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
By Simon F
Probably the best option for Kindle users. This is the classic Louise and Aylmer Maude translation - the same as in my Everyman hardback. It seems to avoid the typographic and layout problems that are annoying in so many Kindle books. I notice that it has 'enhanced typesetting'. Perhaps that is the reason. My only complaint is that there are no maps. That's a big advantage of the Everyman print edition, though maps are always illegible in Kindle editions. This Collins version doesn't have Everyman's handy dates lists either, but the essential character list is included.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
By M. Dowden
When asked what his best novel was Tolstoy stated Anna Karenina, as he thought of War and Peace as something that was larger in scope and not what we usually think of in terms of the novel. Of course he was right, as this book is just so large in scope and has so many characters (around five hundred) that it falls into a tiny group of books that are more than they seem.Set between 1805-1820 a lot of the book takes place in Petersburg and Moscow, as well as some other places at times and of course battles and the front line of the warring with the French. Taking in both fictional characters as well as only too real people this is a book that once you start reading you just have to finish, indeed I have lost count of the number of times I have read it over the years. And if you are coming to this for the first time, don’t worry about the number of characters. When we are talking about so many people who populate the pages of this some only appear very briefly, with cameo roles as such, either to move an event along, or to report a certain happening. The main characters we follow here we see grow up, get married, have affairs and so on. It is these characters that form the main element of this tale, as we see mirrored people, who whatever station of life they come from make mistakes and have the same pleasures and ideas as we all have. Of course weaved in with this are the battles and the fate of Russia as Napoleon and his forces move in.With some great set pieces here this is a tale that certainly weaves its magic as we read it. With characters enjoying themselves with simple pleasures, to marriages falling apart and Napoleon at Moscow we see some great contrasts. As Moscow lays open to the French it doesn’t stop the continual round of salons going on in Petersburg. Bringing many elements together Tolstoy also makes us think and ponder such issues as what are the elements that cause history to be made and whether we really have free will, and to what extent.Always a sheer joy to read this is a book that will hold your attention for a very long time and has a tale that comes to life in your hands.
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By The Outsider
Free Will and FateAnyone who tells you they have read this book twice in a year is lying - twice in a lifetime is more like it. It is four large 'novels' strung together in an unconventional narrative, with large sections dedicated to discussing history, the reality of 'free will', 'great men', etc that many will find a tad too much.For the rest of us, War and Peace is the story of three Russian aristocratic families whose fortunes intersect during the Napoleonic Wars. It is written with great insight and economy for a book so fantastically large, but it is about whether fate is real and free will, an illusion. The plot comes out on the side of fate (and God's will) every time. In any other novel, I would have slammed the book shut at the first sign of co-incidence. Not War and Peace. There are so many co-incidences in this sprawling saga that there can be little doubt of the author's intentions. He wants us to question again the inevitable victory of the scientific world, of the human progress idea, that notion that the ancients had it all wrong, that Napoleon was a genius, that there is a historical tide whose time was coming.There is something bracing and other-worldly about this story, which is why it is so highly regarded and has been read and re-read. The characters are flesh and blood - the clumsy but questioning Pierre, the inheritor of great wealth who understands nothing until he has nothing, is a favourite. Who cannot but love Natasha, the naive, pure, loving Rostov daughter, who stumbles from tragedy to tragedy only to end up happily married? It is hard to imagine another book with a Platon, the poor doomed soldier who goes through his suffering last days with a smile, cheering up his fellow prisoners on their death march? Tolstoy -did he make it all up, or were these all flesh and blood? My view is that the characters, like the story, were archetypes for him to springboard his spiritual views. He has so much to say about human behaviour and spirituality, he seems to need all the characters conjures up here to make his points clear.Tolstoy said War and Peace is not a novel, and he is right. He has a loose narrative structure and the Napoleonic War is his framework, but it is more a meditation on the debate between fate and free will, and on how humans know very little and stumble around in apparent certainty only to find they were totally wrong. Although events seem accidental, nothing he says or does is remotely accidental. It is all cleverly conceived and revealing of a huge mind at work.So War and Peace is not only the longest novel I've ever read, it is a colossal one. Through it, you see how small and blind humanity is, and how massive and unknowable the world is.
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