书名：War and Peace战争与和平-列夫托尔斯泰
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1240L

作者：Leo Tolstoy
出版社名称：OUP Oxford
出版时间：2010

语种：英语
ISBN：9780199232765
商品尺寸：19.6 x 4.6 x 13.0 cm

包装：平装
页数：1392（以实物为准）

《战争与和平》是俄国作家列夫·尼古拉耶维奇·托尔斯泰创作的长篇小说，也是其代表作，创作于1863—1869年。

该作以1812年的卫国战争为中心，反映从1805到1820年间的重大历史事件。以鲍尔康斯、别祖霍夫、罗斯托夫和库拉金四大贵族的经历为主线，在战争与和平的交替描写中把众多的事件和人物串联起来。

作者将“战争”与“和平”的两种生活、两条线索交叉描写，构成一部百科全书式的壮阔史诗。 《战争与和平》的基本主题是肯定这次战争中俄国人民正义的抵抗行动，赞扬俄国人民在战争中表现出来的爱国热情和英雄主义。但作品的基调是宗教仁爱思想和人道主义，作家反对战争，对战争各方的受难并都给予了深切的同情。

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. Balls and soirées alternate with councils of war and the machinations of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles with everyday human passions in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. 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. Yet Tolstoy's portrayal of marital relations and scenes of domesticity is as truthful and poignant as the grand themes that underlie them.

Amy Mandelker has taught at UCLA, University of Southern California, Columbia, Brown and Princeton Universities. Her books include Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question and the Novel of Adultery (1993) and Approaches to World Literature: Teaching Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina' and she has introduced the Barnes and Noble edition of Anna Karenina.