WAR AND PEACE, Leo Tolstoy, Published by The Folio Society, London, 2 Vols.,1971

Description: WAR AND PEACE, Leo Tolstoy, Published by The Folio Society, London, 2 Volumes.1971, First edition ofThe Folio society. First Edition Second impression, 1977, for book of the Month Club. New York.Translated and with an Introduction by Rosemary Edmonds, Drawings by Feliks Topolski. War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature. War and Peace is a panorama of Russian life in that active period of history known as the Napoleonic era. Perhaps beyond any other work, shows the advantage of long novel. This great novel reveals the beauty and injustice, the size and complexity of life itself. The translator Rosemary was a British translator of Russian Literature whose versions of the novels of Tolstoy have been in print for 50 years. Her translation of War and Peace was published in 1957. in the introduction she wrote that War and Peace "is a hymn of life. It is the Iliad and Odyssey of Russia." The condition of the book is very good, pages are clean and tight, unread. The slipcase shows some wear, see the attached picture, but still hold the tw books tightly. Size of the book(in slipcase): 10x6.5x3.5 inch; Weight: 7 lb.; Pages: Vol. I, 707, Vol.II 728Will be shipped via USPS Media Mail with tracking. number.

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