War and Peace - Wordsworth Classics Author:Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude (Translator), Aylmer Maude (Translator) 'War and Peace' is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. — Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew... more » Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery. This translation is one which received Tolstoy's approval.« less