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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organizations. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Data available  \nPrinted in Great Britain  \non acid-free paper by  \nClays Ltd., St Ives plc  \nISBN 978–0–19–923276–5 pbk ISBN 978–0–19–958914–2 hbk  \n1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2  \nCONTENTS  \nIntroduction vii  \nNote on the Text and Translation xxi  \nSelect Bibliography xxiii  \nA Chronology of Leo Tolstoy xxv  \nPrincipal Characters and Guide to Pronunciation xxvii  \nHistorical Characters in War and Peace xxx  \nDates of Principal Events xxxiii  \nMaps xxxiv  \nWAR AND PEACE  \nBOOK ONE 1  \nPart One 3  \nPart Two 119  \nPart Three 214  \nBOOK TWO 315  \nPart One 317  \nPart Two 371  \nPart Three 447  \nPart Four 522  \nPart Five 574  \nBOOK THREE 645  \nPart One 647  \nPart Two 732  \nPart Three 881  \nBOOK FOUR 1003  \nPart One 1005  \nPart Two 1062  \nPart Three 1109  \nPart Four 1157  \nvi Contents  \nEPILOGUE 1213  \nPart One 1215  \nPart Two 1270  \nAppendix: ‘Some Words about War and Peace’ 1309  \nExplanatory Notes 1319  \nINTRODuCTION  \nReaders unfamiliar with the plot may prefer to treat the Introduction as an Afterword.  \n‘HERE is the greatest novel ever written’—so major novelists of the past two centuries, from Ivan Turgenev to Virginia Woolf, hailed Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece, War and Peace. Yet Tolstoy himself saw it differently. ‘It is not a novel,’ he wrote, ‘even less is it an epic poem, and still less an historical chronicle.’1 In an assertive claim for the primacy of artistic form, the author insisted that ‘War and Peace is what the author wished and was able to express in the form in which it is expressed’.2 Tolstoy began his project with great joy and fear, and only discovered the courage of artistic freedom as part of his writing process. While preparing drafts of a novel about the Decembrist uprising against Tsar Nicholas I in 1825, Tolstoy ‘became absorbed in reading the history of Napoleon and Alexander’. As he described it: ‘In a cloud of joy and awareness of the possibility of doing great work, the idea caught me up of writing a psychological history of Alexander and Napoleon. 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