War And Peace Is A Vast Epic Centred On Napoleon’S War With Russia. While It Expresses Tolstoy’S View That History Is An Inexorable Process Which Man Cannot Influence, He Peoples His Great Novel With A Cast Of Over Five Hundred Characters. Three Of These, The Artless And Delightful Natasha Rostov, The World-Weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky And The Idealistic Pierre Bezukhov Illustrate Tolstoy’S Philosophy In This Novel Of Unquestioned Mastery. This Translation Is One Which Received Tolstoy’S Approval.