"Backgrounds and Sources" includes the publication history of War and Peace, selections from Tolstoy’s letters and diaries as well as three drafts of his introduction to the novel that elucidate the its evolution, and an 1868 article by Tolstoy in which he reacts to his critics.
"Criticism" includes twenty essays, seven of them new, that provide diverse perspectives on the novel by Nikolai Strakhov, V. I. Lenin, Henry James, Isaiah Berlin, D. S. Mirsky, Kathryn Feuer, Lydia Ginzburg, Richard Gustafson, Gary Saul Morson, and Caryl Emerson, among others.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
The text of this revised Norton Critical Edition of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel is based on the Louise and Aylmer Maude translation. The editor has made revisions where appropriate; the annotations have also been revised and expanded. Three maps of Napoleon’s campaigns and battles in Russia are included, making the military aspects of the novel easier to follow.
"Backgrounds and Sources" includes the publication history of War and Peace, selections from Tolstoy’s letters and diaries as well as three drafts of his introduction to the novel that elucidate the its evolution, and an 1868 article by Tolstoy in which he reacts to his critics."Criticism" includes twenty essays, seven of them new, that provide diverse perspectives on the novel by Nikolai Strakhov, V. I. Lenin, Henry James, Isaiah Berlin, D. S. Mirsky, Kathryn Feuer, Lydia Ginzburg, Richard Gustafson, Gary Saul Morson, and Caryl Emerson, among others.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
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Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 and The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003. Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.
Preface vii The Text of War and Peace 1(1074) Backgrounds and Sources 1075(22) Map: The Campaign of 1812 1076(1) Map: Borodino 1077(1) Map: Napoleon in Russia---1812 1078(3) The Publication History of War and Peace 1081(2) The Author on the Novel Extracts from Tolstoys Letters and Diaries (1865-1868) 1083(1) (Letter to A. A. Fet---January, 1865) 1083(1) (Diary---March 2, 1865) 1083(1) (Diary---March 19, 1865) 1083(1) (Diary---March 23, 1865) 1083(1) (Diary---March 28, 1865) 1084(1) (Letter to L. I. Volkonskaya---May 3, 1865) 1084(1) (Letter to P. D. Boborykin---July or August, 1865) 1084(1) (Letter to A. E. Bers---November, 1865) 1084(1) (Diary---November 12, 1865) 1085(1) (Letters to M. S. Bashilov---April 4 and December 8, 1866; February 28, 1867) 1085(1) (Letter to A. A. Fet---November 7, 1866) 1085(1) (Entry in Tolstoys Notebook---November 27, 1866) 1086(1) (Letter to P. I. Bartenev---August 16-18, 1867) 1086(1) (Letter to P. I. Bartenev---November 1, 1867) 1086(1) (Letter to P. I. Bartenev---December 6, 1867) 1086(1) (Letter to P. I. Bartenev---December 8, 1867) 1086(1) (Letter to M. P. Pogodin---March 21 or 23, 1868) 1086(1) Drafts for an Introduction to War and Peace 1087(2) (Draft 1) 1087(1) (Draft 2) 1087(2) (Draft 3) 1089(1) Some Words about War and Peace 1089(8) Criticism 1097(82) The Old Gentry 1099(2) Dmitri Pisarev (The Significance of the Last Part of War and Peace) 1101(6) Nikolai Strakhov (The Russian Idea in War and Peace) 1103(4) Comments on War and Peace 1107(2) Ivan Turgenev (The Greatness and Universality of War and Peace) 1109(2) Constantine Leontiev Leo Tolstoy as a Mirror of the Russian Revolution 1111(3) V. I. Lenin (Loose Baggy Monsters) 1114(1) Henry James (A Monster Harnessed) 1114(1) (Details in War and Peace) 1114(12) Victor Shklovsky (The Genre of War and Peace in the Context of Russian Literary History) 1126(3) Boris Eikhenbaum (Tolstoys Essays as an Element of Structure) 1127(2) (Tolstoys Attitude Towards History in War and Peace) 1129(8) Isaiah Berlin (Tolstoys Worldview in War and Peace) 1133(4) About Tolstoy 1137(5) Dmitry S. Mirsky (On Tolstoy: Materialism, Spiritualism, and Russianness) 1138(4) The Book That Became War and Peace 1142(6) Kathryn Feuer States of Human Awareness 1148(8) Richard F. Gustafson (Narrative and Creative Potentials in War and Peace) 1156(10) Gary Saul Morson (Where Bakhtin Misses the Mark on Tolstoy) 1166(1) Caryl Emerson Causal Conditionality 1167(12) Lydia Ginzburg A Note on Russian Literary Criticism 1179(4) Leo Tolstoy: A Chronology 1183(2) Selected Bibliography 1185
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), a giant of world literature, is the author of many classics, including War and Peace and Anna Karenina. George Gibian was Goldwin Smith Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His honors include Fulbright, Guggenheim, American Philosophical Society, and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships. He was the author of The Man in the Black Coat: Russias Lost Literature of the Absurd, The Interval of Freedom: Russian Literature During the Thaw, and Tolstoj and Shakespeare. He was the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of Tolstoys Anna Karenina and War and Peace, and Gogols Dead Souls, and of the Viking Penguin Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader. Professor Gibians articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, the Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday, among others.
