War and Peace. Volume 4


  • Author: Leo Tolstoy
  • Late in his life, Count Leo Tolstoy recalled his years writing short stories and his two towering masterpieces, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, as a trifling application of his mind and soul. While he was writing Anna Karenina, Tolstoy was beset by spiritual turmoil, which he later described in A Confession. He abandoned orthodox faith and began writing essays in which he emphasized love and personal knowledge of God as the foundations of Christian ethics; his most notable fiction from this later period is the short story The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Following a long estrangement from his family, Tolstoy left his estate and died at a train station while on his way to a monastery.

  • ISBN: 9780543739278
  • ISBN: 9780543739261
  • Book details: This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by the Walter Scott Publishing Co. in London and Felling-on-Tyne. This book is in English. This book contains 542 pages.
  • Edition: Elibron Classics
  • Book ID: 109403
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