War and Peace

This edition includes: Biography of Tolstoy List of principal characters Bibliography Reading Guide Questions Isaac Babel said, after reading War and Peace, "If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy." Perhaps the greatest of all novels. Tolstoy's War and Peace covers the involvement of Russia in the wars of Napoleon, but is also one of the greatest love stories ever written. This edition is based on the translation by Aylmer Maude (1858–1938) and Louise Maude (1855–1939). In Tolstoy’s own assessment “Better translators …could not be invented.”