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Tolstoy and the genesis of "War and Peace"

Kathryn B. Feuer · 1996

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Kathryn B. Feuer offers remarkable insights into Leo Tolstoy's creative process while he wrote War and Peace. She follows the novel through countless drafts and notes, and illuminates its connection to earlier, unpublished novels and to crucial new sources, both European and Russian. Additionally, Feuer locates Tolstoy within the intellectual debates of his time.

First sentence: This book investigates the origins of War and Peace and explores the processes of the novel's early development.

Book details

Year
1996
Language
English
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Editions
1
Pages
304
ISBN
9780801474477

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