War and peace : the Maude translation, backgrounds and sources, criticism

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War and peace : the Maude translation, backgrounds and sources, criticism

Leo Tolstoy ; edited by George Gibian

(Norton critical editions)

W.W. Norton, c1996

2nd ed

  • : pbk

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Война и мир

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"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.

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