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Translation. War and Peace at Wikisource. War and Peace ( Russian: Война и мир, romanized : Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is a literary work by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the work mixes fictional narrative with chapters discussing history and philosophy.
978-0-7432-5397-0. A Separate Peace is a coming-of-age novel by John Knowles, published in 1958. Based on his earlier short story "Phineas", published in the May 1956 issue of Cosmopolitan, it was Knowles's first published novel and became his best-known work. Set against the backdrop of World War II, A Separate Peace explores morality ...
e. Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch ( German: Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf) is a 1795 book authored by German philosopher Immanuel Kant. [ 1] In the book, Kant advances ideas that have subsequently been associated with democratic peace, commercial peace, and institutional peace. [ 2][ 3][ 4]
Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (2001) is a historical narrative about the events of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It was written by the Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan with a foreword by the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke. The book has also been published under the titles Paris 1919 ...
Men of Good Will. Les Hommes de bonne volonté ( transl. Men of Good Will) is an epic roman-fleuve by French writer Jules Romains, published in 27 volumes between 1932 and 1946. It has been classified both as a novel cycle and a novel and, at two million words and 7,892 pages, has been cited as one of the longest novels ever written.
There shall be. Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. " The Soldier " is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. It is the fifth and final sonnet in the sequence 1914, published posthumously in 1915 in the collection 1914 and Other Poems . The manuscript is located at King's College, Cambridge.
Russian. Count [1] Pyotr " Pierre " Kirillovich Bezukhov [2] ( / bɛ.zjuːˈkɒv /; Russian: Пьер Безу́хов, Пётр Кири́ллович Безу́хов) is the fictional protagonist of Leo Tolstoy 's 1869 novel War and Peace. He is the favourite out of several illegitimate sons of the wealthy nobleman Count Kirill Vladimirovich ...
War and Peace in the Global Village is a 1968 book by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore. It contains a collage of images and text that illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man. Marshall McLuhan used James Joyce 's Finnegans Wake as a major inspiration for this study of war throughout history as an indicator as to ...