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The English translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude – the version closest both in letter and in spirit to the original.
Important letters by Tolstoy and early drafts of his introduction.
A wide range of important Russian criticism, representing all the prominent literary schools, never before translated into English. Among the critics represented are Dmitri Pisarev, Nikolai Strakhov, Ivan Turgenev, Constantine Leontiev, Victor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, and V. I. Lenin.
The best of Western criticism: articles and statements by Henry James, Percy Lubbock, Albert Cook, E. K. Brown, Ralph E. Matlaw, Isaiah Berlin, R. F. Christian, Georg Lukacs, and Käte Hamburger.
5 reviews for War and Peace