War and peace /
Leo Tolstoy
- Hertfordshire : Wordsworth classics, c2001
- xxix, 994 pages ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
War and Peace is a vast epic centered on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters.