War and Peace

A Norton Critical Edition

By: Leo N. Tolstoy

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Paperback | 8 January 2010 | Edition Number 2

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"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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Preface	p. vii
The Text of War and Peace	p. 1
Backgrounds and Sources	p. 1075
Map: The Campaign of 1812	p. 1076
Map: Borodino	p. 1077
Map: Napoleon in Russia--1812	p. 1078
The Publication History of War and Peace	p. 1081
The Author on the Novel
Extracts from Tolstoy's Letters and Diaries (1865-1868)	p. 1083
[Letter to A. A. Fet--January, 1865]	p. 1083
[Diary--March 2, 1865]	p. 1083
[Diary--March 19, 1865]	p. 1083
[Diary--March 23, 1865]	p. 1083
[Diary--March 28, 1865]	p. 1084
[Letter to L. I. Volkonskaya--May 3, 1865]	p. 1084
[Letter to P. D. Boborykin--July or August, 1865]	p. 1084
[Letter to A. E. Bers--November, 1865]	p. 1084
[Diary--November 12, 1865]	p. 1085
[Letters to M. S. Bashilov--April 4 and December 8, 1866; February 28, 1867]	p. 1085
[Letter to A. A. Fet--November 7, 1866]	p. 1085
[Entry in Tolstoy's Notebook--November 27, 1866]	p. 1086
[Letter to P. I. Bartenev--August 16-18, 1867]	p. 1086
[Letter to P. I. Bartenev--November 1, 1867]	p. 1086
[Letter to P. I. Bartenev--December 6, 1867]	p. 1086
[Letter to P. I. Bartenev--December 8, 1867]	p. 1086
[Letter to M. P. Pogodin--March 21 or 23, 1868]	p. 1086
Drafts for an Introduction to War and Peace	p. 1087
[Draft 1]	p. 1087
[Draft 2]	p. 1087
[Draft 3]	p. 1089
Some Words about War and Peace	p. 1089
Criticism	p. 1097
The Old Gentry	p. 1099
[The Significance of the Last Part of War and Peace]	p. 1101
[The Russian Idea in War and Peace]	p. 1103
Comments on War and Peace	p. 1107
[The Greatness and Universality of War and Peace]	p. 1109
Leo Tolstoy as a Mirror of the Russian Revolution	p. 1111
[Loose Baggy Monsters]	p. 1114
[A Monster Harnessed]	p. 1114
[Details in War and Peace]	p. 1114
[The Genre of War and Peace in the Context of Russian Literary History]	p. 1126
[Tolstoy's Essays as an Element of Structure]	p. 1127
[Tolstoy's Attitude Towards History in War and Peace]	p. 1129
[Tolstoy's Worldview in War and Peace]	p. 1133
About Tolstoy	p. 1137
[On Tolstoy: Materialism, Spiritualism, and Russianness]	p. 1138
The Book That Became War and Peace	p. 1142
States of Human Awareness	p. 1148
[Narrative and Creative Potentials in War and Peace]	p. 1156
[Where Bakhtin Misses the Mark on Tolstoy]	p. 1166
Causal Conditionality	p. 1167
A Note on Russian Literary Criticism	p. 1179
Leo Tolstoy: A Chronology	p. 1183
Selected Bibliography	p. 1185
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