Leo Tolstoy: Three Novels (Library of Essential Writers)

<br> Although set in the historical past of his native Russia, the novels of <b>Leo Tolstoy</b> have a universal appeal that transcends their time and place. Their vast scale and panoramic events provide a rich and colorful backdrop for intimate dramas concerned with the fundamentally human themes that define Toltoy’s art: love, honor, faith, duty, fate, free will, and mortality. <p>This volume collects three of Tolstoy’s best-known works: <i>The Cossacks,</i> his account of the harsh realties of life lived on the outskirts of civilization; <i>Anna Karenina,</i> the tragic tale of a woman who defies convention and chooses a life of passion over obligations to her family and home; and <i>War and Peace,</i> an epic chronicle of the Napoleonic War and its impact on the lives and fortunes of five families. These three books are a testament to the genius of a writer whom Virginia Woolf proclaimed “the greatest of all novelists.”</p> <p><i>Leo Tolstoy: Three Novels</i> is part of Barnes &amp; Noble’s Library of Essential Writers. Each title in the series presents the finest works—complete and unabridged—from one of the greatest writers in literature in magnificent, elegantly designed hard-back editions. Every volume also includes an original introduction that provides the reader with enlightening information on the writer’s life and works.<br> </p>

Author(s): Leo Tolstoy  

ISBN 10: 076079278X
ISBN 13: 9780760792780
Pages: 1552
Format: Hardcover
Publication: 10/11/2007