War and Peace / The Inner Sanctum Edition / 1942

By Leo Tolstoy

"War and Peace" is considered one of the world's greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina, as Tolstoy's finest literary achievement.

Epic in scale, War and Peace delineate in graphic detail the events leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families.

Portions of an earlier version had been serialized in the magazine The Russian Messenger between 1865 and 1867, and the novel was first published in its entirety in 1869. Tolstoy, somewhat enigmatically, said of War and Peace that it was "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle."

Book Condition: Good. Dust Jacket: None. The covers are red cloth with a gilt symbol on the front cover. There is minor edgewear on the covers. The spin has a black and gilt title. In addition, the spine is sunned. The text block is top-stained, the fore-edge is deckled, and the edges are lightly tanned. The front and back pastedown and end pages have a map of Napoleon in Russia during 1812. The binding is cracked between the front free-endpapers and the half-title page. As well as in between the back free endpapers.

Publisher: Simon and Schuster, Inc.
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Publication Date: 1942
The number of pages: 1370pp
Edition: Inner Sanctum Edition