War and Peace - A Norton Critical Edition

"Backgrounds and Sources" includes the publication history of War and Peace, selections from Tolstoy's letters and diaries as well as three drafts of his introduction to the novel that elucidate the its evolution, and an 1868 article by Tolstoy in which he reacts to his critics.

"Criticism" includes twenty essays, seven of them new, that provide diverse perspectives on the novel by Nikolai Strakhov, V. I. Lenin, Henry James, Isaiah Berlin, D. S. Mirsky, Kathryn Feuer, Lydia Ginzburg, Richard Gustafson, Gary Saul Morson, and Caryl Emerson, among others.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

About the author

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), a giant of world literature, is the author of many classics, including War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Product details

• Authors: Leo Tolstoy
• Assisted by: George Gibian (Editor), George (Cornell University) Gibian (Editor)
• Publisher: Blue Guides Limited of London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.1996
• EAN: 9780393966473
• ISBN: 978-0-393-96647-3
• No. of pages: 1200
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 236 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 1048 g
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies