Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Volume I
1902 · 323 pages
- Author
- Leo Tolstoy
- Edition
- The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï; War and Peace, Volume I; edited by Nathan Haskell Dole
- Published
- New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902
- Pages
- 323
- File
- DjVu, 43 MB
- Text search
- yes
- Rights
- public domain
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About the book
War and Peace is Leo Tolstoy’s vast novel of Russia during the Napoleonic Wars. He wrote it in the 1860s; early chapters appeared in the Russian Messenger from 1865, and the complete book came out in 1869. Through the lives of a few noble families — the Rostovs, the Bolkonskys and the Bezukhovs — it moves between Petersburg drawing rooms, Moscow households, country estates and the battlefields of 1805 to 1812, and mixes the story with Tolstoy’s own reflections on history and what drives it.
This first volume covers the opening year, 1805: Anna Pavlovna Scherer’s evening party, the young Pierre’s sudden inheritance, the Rostov family in Moscow, Prince Andrei leaving for the army, and the Russian campaign in Austria up to the rearguard action at Schöngrabern. The novel is widely counted among the greatest ever written.
The volume belongs to a uniform American set of Tolstoy’s works edited by Nathan Haskell Dole, whose 1889 War and Peace for Crowell was among the first English versions made directly from the Russian.
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About this edition
First volume of War and Peace in The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï, published in New York by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1902; the verso of the title page reads ‘Copyright, 1898, by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.’ It opens with Nathan Haskell Dole’s editor’s preface for the set, an introduction, a detailed chapter-by-chapter contents and a list of the principal characters with pronunciation hints, and ends with the close of Part Second. The title page names no translator. The scan comes from a Princeton University copy digitised by Google, with library marks in the page margins; it has a searchable text layer.
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