War and Peace
A Norton Critical Edition
Leo Tolstoy author George Gibian editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Published:13th Dec '95
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
"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.
- Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003
- Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003
- Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003
ISBN: 9780393966473
Dimensions: 236mm x 142mm x 33mm
Weight: 827g
1200 pages
Second Edition