Authors: Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, George Gibian, George (Ed. Translator) Gibian, George Gibian
ISBN-13: 9780393966428, ISBN-10: 0393966429
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: July 1995
Edition: 2nd Edition
One of the great masters of the 19th-century novel, Tolstoy created a sweeping epic in War and Peace which folds together huge events in history and politics with the emotional lives of individuals. But it was his deeply spiritual outlook that made him an icon.
This Second Norton Critical Edition of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel is again based on the Louise and Aylmer Maude translation (originally published in 1918; revised with notes in 1939), which has never been surpassed. This volume reprints the 1939 edition, which the editor has revised, making twenty-one textual changes and revising or adding forty-nine footnotes.