Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times

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From a popular Tolstoy scholar: an entertaining, thought-provoking, and accessible argument for why War and Peace is more relevant to readers now than ever. "Nothing less than inspiring."--Jay Parini, author of The Last Station "Mischievously compelling....An attaboy to Kaufman for reminding us of this novel's  relevance to our anxious century." --The Miami Herald "This lively appreciation...should persuade many hesitant readers to try scaling the heights of War and Peace sooner rather than later.--Publisher's Weekly  Considered by many critics the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is also one of the most feared. And at 1,500 pages, it's no wonder why. Still, new editions keep appearing. In July 2009 Newsweek put War and Peace at the top of its list of 100 great novels and a 2007 edition of the AARP Bulletin, read by millions, included the novel in their list of the top four books everybody should read by the age of fifty. A New York Times survey from 2009 identified War and Peace as the world classic you're most likely to find people reading on their subway commute to work. What might all those Newsweek devotees, senior citizens, and harried commuters see in a book about the Napoleonic Wars in the early 1800s? A mirror of our times.War and Peace is many things. It is a love story, a family saga, a war novel. But at its core it's a novel about human beings attempting to create a meaningful life for themselves in a country torn apart by social change, political divisiveness, and spiritual confusion.Give War and Peace a Chance take