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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition May 2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kaufman, Andrew D.
Give War and Peace a chance : Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times / Andrew D. Kaufman.—First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
pages cm
1. Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828–1910—Appreciation. 2. Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828–1910—Influence. I. Title.
PG3410.K374 2014
891.73'3—dc232013024019
ISBN 978-1-4516-4470-8
ISBN 978-1-4516-4472-2 (ebook)
Excerpts of Tolstoy’s War and Peace: From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, translation copyright © 2007 by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
The author is grateful to Natalya Alekseevna Kalinina, director of the L. N. Tolstoy State Museum in Moscow, for the photographs of Tolstoy and his family, the photograph of the page from the manuscript of War and Peace, as well as the photograph of the drawings from Tolstoy’s diary.