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| War and Peace (Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: L.n. Tolstoy
Creator: R. Edmonds
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 61385
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reissue
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1472
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 2.1
ISBN: 0140444173
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.733
EAN: 9780140444179
ASIN: 0140444173
Publication Date: May 27, 1982
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 W&P is the best book I've read yet. February 3, 1999
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I started reading W&P as an assignment for my sophomore english class. I figured, if she wants me to read a classic, I might as well go with THE classic, right? So I checked out W&P. At first, I read it just to prove something to myself. Later, however, the book just kind of drew me in; I couldn't put it down! All of the details make you feel like you're there. You sympathize with all of the characters' anguish, and celebrate their victories. With Tolstoy's philosophical masterpiece in Epilogue 2 to tie it all up, War and Peace was definitely a great book.
A masterpiece of the mind January 8, 1999
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was the first 'complex' book I read. I have now read it three times, and I wish to do so again. It is an interplay of the subtle and the obvious, from Pierre's struggle to find peace to the innocent young Natasha's love for Prince Andrey, and Bezuhov. But what affected me most was Tolstoys ruminations on the nature or war and life. His logic is concise, flawless yet has a depth beyond that of any other I have read. His final argument, that argues that we must depend on something we do not understand is so perfect I can find no flaw. It is the only argument that proves there must be a God that I can't attack. War and Peace is a large commitment to read, but once you have finished, you will be more than what you were. That is a guarantee.
 Not bad, but not Karenina- not piercing, too revolving... July 24, 1998
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
I sometimes read War and Peace in the dull hours of the early morning. I find that the revolving interaction of the 5 familys during the wars leaves a lot unsaid: this I cannot appreciate. Anna Karenina was much more insightful and passionate. I always get a distanced feel from War and Peace, a feel that Tolstoy: never a soldier: did not know the battlefields he spoke of. And yet I continue to read it in those hours.
The Original July 15, 1998
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Is it possible to give this book anything but five stars? Everything I have read since, including many of the other classics seem to borrow from Tolstoy's style. There are many other original books out there, but remember that this is the original novel.
War and Peace is brillant and timeless. June 26, 1998
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
War and Peace is a testement to the unchanging nature of mankind. As an amature novelist and voracious reader, I am constantly scouring the world of literature for hints of the true meaning of man's struggle in the universe. Leo Tolstoy has displayed the full nature of this struggle in dazzling magnificence. From the post-modernists to the magical realists to the lore of Faulkner and the like, I am constantly discovering ideas and themes within great modern literature that seem unique to our time, only to find that all of it -- the whole ironic gauntlet of living as a human -- has already been displayed by Tolstoy with such grace and splendid honesty that it would be impossible to surmount what he has already accomplished. From the spiritual turmoil of Count Bezukhov, to the avant garde lifestyle of Anatole Kuragin, to the madness of Nepoleon, every aspect of the human condition is rendered in such epic proportion and stark reality that the characters step from the black print into your mind with the easy of the master's endlessly flowing pen. Brillant!
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