War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)

Here is a one-volume paperback edition of arguably the greatest novel ever written in the acclaimed Maude translation. Far more than a historical chronicle of Russias struggle with Napoleon War and Peace offers a dazzling array of characters offering an unmatched portrait of the physical realities of human life indeed a complete portrait of the human experience--from happiness and greatness to grief and humiliation. This new one-volume edition replaces the two paperback volumes in the Worlds Classics first published in 1983.