War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
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Author: Leo TolstoyTranslator: Constance Garnett
Introduction: A.N. Wilson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); Russian (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-07-09
ISBN: 0375760644
Number of pages: 1424
Publisher: Modern Library
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Book Review: !!!DAZZLEZZA!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
who can compete with tolstoy?! who can portray life in more clarity dazzlezzan than he? who narrates to the reader that which causes more snows to melt and more waters to boil than he? although proust might penetrate his characters' forums in greater depth and although his mind might wander into larger and more far-flung kingdoms and might consider more ideas and although joyce might impress us with more florabundant virtuosity or astonish us with wind-swept innovation, it is tol-stoy that presents to us the human comedy in brilliant simplic-ity and clarity. how much we learn from this author! how many new absurdities he unveils to us! how many secrets he divulges! new vices, cutthroats, fallacies, flounderings in irra-tionality, enslavement to chimerae, consortions with succubae - all these shine brightly in tolstoy's cosmos with no less brilliantica than the red giant sirius! tolstoy exposes us immediately to a character's nobility or corruptibility, he does not obsess tediously on minutia, nor does he conflate what is insignificant, nor does melodramatize in a cheap attempt to twist the reader's nerves - in contrarium! he is faithful to life's maximo, he adheres to its covert principles and its clandestine regulations. just as newton astonishes us with three simple laws of motion, so elemantery that we are vexo-mystified that they were not discovered sooner, so too does tolstoy astound us again and again by exposing the hidden pecularities of his characters.
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