War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir) by Leo Tolstoy is considered one of the world's greatest novels. Epic in scale, it chronicles the French invasion of Russia, the events leading up to it and the impact of the Napoleonic era on five Russian aristocratic families. It was published in 1869, portions of an earlier version having been serialized between 1865 and 1867 in the magazine The Russian Messenger.

A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sarte, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillan Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tyan, Noam Chomsky, and others are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.

The controversial book about intellectuals in history from Rousseau, Marx, and Tolstoy to Satre, Noam Chomsky, and Lillian Hellman.

TMS - Giants of Russian Literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov
Russian literature of the 19th century is among the richest, most profound, and most human traditions in the world. This course explores this tradition by focusing on four giants: Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov.