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Written by Leo Tolstoy - Audio book narrated by Frederick Davidson - Unabridged Fiction - 16 CASSETTES

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (September 1998)

"Tolstoy is one of those born aristocrats who have used their privileges to the full," wrote Virginia Woolf. "There is something proud and superb in the attack of such a mind and such a body upon life."

Often called 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 Russian spirit. Tolstoy's genius is clearly seen 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.