TOLSTOI, Count Leon. [Leo Tolstoy]. Translated from the French by Clara Bell.
War and Peace. A Historical Novel.
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom": First Edition In English Of Leo Tolstoy’s Masterpiece War and Peace
New York: William S. Gottsberger, Publisher, 1886.
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First edition in English of Tolstoy's masterpiece, a pillar of world literature. Octavo, six volumes in the publisher's original pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt and black, brown coated endpapers, with the cursive imprint in each part. Translated by Clara Bell. In near fine condition. Housed in two custom marbled slipcases. An exceptional set of Tolstoy's masterpiece, one of the finest we have seen.
Widely considered the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the human spirit. Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle—all of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual’s place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War and Peace in the same category as the Iliad: "To read him . . . is to find one’s way home . . . to everything within us that is fundamental and sane." "There remains the greatest of all novelists--for what else can we call the author of War and Peace" (Virginia Woolf).
War and Peace. A Historical Novel.
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