In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation'.

Two volumes in slip case. Red top fore edge. 
London: The Folio Press, 1971.
Harcover. Good++. 707, 728. pp.