Woolf, Virginia: "There remains the greatest of all novelists--for what else can we call the author of 'War and Peace'?...[Tolstoy's] senses, his intellect, are acute, powerful, and well nourished....Nothing seems to escape him. Nothing glances off him unrecorded....Every twig, every feather sticks to his magnet. He notices the blue or red of a child's frock; the way a horse shifts its tail; the sound of a cough; the action of a man trying to put his hands into pockets that have been sewn up. And what his infallible eye reports of a cough or a trick of the hands his infallible brain refers to something hidden in the character, so that we know his people, not only by the way they love and their views on politics and the immortality of the soul, but also by the way they sneeze and choke. We feel that we have been set on a mountaintop and had a telescope put into our hands. Everything is astonishingly clear and absolutely sharp."
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Format: Hardcover Publisher: Modern Library (June 01, 1994) Measurements: 8.5"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 2"(d), 2.8 lbs. ISBN: 9780679600848
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Among the great novels of the world, 'War and Peace' has long held pride of place because it fulfills, in its seamless interweaving of the historical and the personal, and its genius in registering the entire scale of human life, all the promise latent in the art of fiction itself.
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