War And Peace: Book 5

by Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bell (Translation)

War and Peace opens in the Russian city of St. Petersburg in 1805, as Napoleon's conquest of western Europe is just beginning to stir fears in Russia. Many of the novel's characters are introduced at a society hostess's party, among them Pierre Bezukhov, the socially awkward but likeable illegitimate son of a rich count, and Andrew Bolkonski, the intelligent and ambitious son of a retired military commander. We also meet the sneaky and shallow Kuragin family, including the wily father Vasili, the fortune-hunter son Anatole, and the ravishing daughter Helene. We are introduced to the Rostovs, a noble Moscow family, including the lively daughter Natasha, the quiet cousin Sonya, and the impetuous son Nicholas, who has just joined the army led by the old General Kutuzov. The Russian troops are mobilized in alliance with the Austrian empire, which is currently resisting Napoleon's onslaught. Both Andrew and Nicholas go to the front. Andrew is wounded at the Battle of Austerlitz, and though he survives, he is long presumed dead. Pierre is made sole heir of his father's fortune and marries Helene Kuragina in a daze. Helene cheats on Pierre, and he challenges her seducer to a duel in which Pierre nearly kills the man.

66 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1886

About the author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reviews

[Ayah]

وانا اطلقت الرصاص على دولوخوف لاني كنت أرى أنه قد نالتني اهانة..
وأعدم لويس السادس عشر لأنهم رأوه مجرما, وبعد عام أعدم من أعدموه للسبب عينه..
فما الشر ؟ وما الخير؟ ماذا ينبغي للمرء ان يحب وأن يكره؟..

أحد النصوص في بداية الجزء الخامس , ملفت, وعبره بدأ تولستوي في طرح خاصية الادب الروسي الام, الفلسفة..
وعليه كان الجزء ملئيا بالافكار الفلسفية والنقاشات ..
بين بيير المنضم حديثا الى الماسونية وهذه اقواله..
وبين الأمير اندريه الفاقد لزوجته, والممتنع عن القتال في الجيش الروسي!..

الجزء ممتع للغاية ..

ينتهي بالتحدث عن روستوف ونظرته نحو القيصر من جديد بأنه هو المتحكم..
وفيما الاصابات..والجرحى ومنهم ديزينوف قائد فرقته وصديقه..اذا كان الامبراطوران.. ألكسدنر و بونابرت, يتبادلون الاوسمة والبروتوكولات الرسمية..

[Seham]

دعونا نعلن للعالم أننا متسامحون تحت السماء، ولنعلن نفير الحرب في الخفاء.

[Tahani Sleim · Rating 4 out of 5]

في النهاية تبتر يد توشين ويقتل الألاف ويحيا القيصر والإمبراطور

[Muath Alharbi]

جيد