Román Vojna a mír se řadí mezi nejvýznamnější díla nejen ruské, ale i světové literatury. Popisuje Napoleonovo tažení do Ruska a obraz každodenního života v carském absolutismu z pohledu pěti aristokratických rodin. O milostná vzplanutí a líčení... Zobraziť viac
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War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters... Zobraziť viac
From sophisticated Moscow soirees to breathless troika rides through the snow, from the bloody front line at Austerlitz to a wife’s death in childbirth, Tolstoy conjures a broad panorama of rich, messy, beautiful and debased human life... Zobraziť viac
The prodigious cast of characters, both great and small, seem to act and move as if connected by threads of destiny as the novel relentlessly questions ideas of free will, fate, and providence... Zobraziť viac
War looms in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and when Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those whose lives it engulfs. Although told on a panoramic scale Tolstoy's epic novel focuses the chaos of battle... Zobraziť viac