TOLSTOY, Leo.

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War and Peace. A handsomely bound copy of the centenary edition of Tolstoy's epic novel. This translation was considered the best in Tolstoy's lifetime, endorsed by the author and completed by his personal friends, Louise and Aylmer Maude. Aylmer was authorized to write Tolstoy's biography, and reminisced in his own memoirs, "during the winters of 1895-96 and 1896-97 I went to see him almost every week. He sometimes visited my wife and myself, and taught our boys to make paper cockerels"(Maude). Tolstoy wrote, "Better translators, both for knowledge of the two languages and for penetration into the very meaning of the matter translated, could not be invented" (Saturday Review).These volumes were part of a 21-volume set of Tolstoy's works that were published between 1928 and 1937, the translators working closely with the author to ensure his intentions were preserved.

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