War and Peace

War and Peace, universally acknowledged as acclaimed author Leo Tolstoy’s finest literary achievement, tells the story of five wealthy families of the Russian aristocracy during and after Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in the early nineteenth century. First published in the 1860s and translated into English in 1899, War and Peace is considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written, and is a book no home library should be without. This leather-bound edition includes an introduction written by a literary scholar that provides further insight into Tolstoy’s enduring masterpiece.