Război și pace

by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy

„... nici Napoleon şi nici Alexandru, nici Kutuzov şi nici Talleyrand nu vor fi eroii mei; voi scrie istoria unor oameni mai liberi decât oamenii de stat, istoria unor oameni care au trait în cele mai prielnice condiţii de viaţă, a unor oameni feriţi de sărăcie şi de ignoranţă, independenţi, a unor oameni care n-au avut cusururile necesare pentru a lăsa urme în paginile cronicilor...„
Tolstoi, jurnalul său

530 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1869

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.