列夫·尼古拉耶維奇·托爾斯泰(ЛевНиколаевич Толстой)(1828～1910) 19世紀末20世紀初俄國最偉大的文學傢，也是世界文學史上最傑齣的作傢之一，他的文學作品在世界文學中占有重要的地位。代錶作有長篇小說《戰爭與和平》、《安娜·卡列尼娜》、《復活》以及自傳體小說三部麯《幼年》《少年》《青年》。其它作品還有《一個地主的早晨》《哥薩剋》《塞瓦斯托波爾故事集》等。他也創作瞭大量童話。他以自己一生的辛勤創作，登上瞭當時歐洲批判現實主義文學的高峰。他還以自己有力的筆觸和卓越的藝術技巧辛勤創作瞭“世界文學中第一流的作品”，因此被列寜稱頌為具有“最清醒的現實主義”的“天纔藝術傢”。

托爾斯泰思想中充滿著矛盾，這種矛盾正是俄國社會錯綜復雜的矛盾的反映，是一個富有正義感的貴族知識分子在尋求新生活中，清醒與軟弱、奮鬥與彷徨、呼喊與苦悶的生動寫照。托爾斯泰的作品縱然其中有反動的和空想的東西，但仍不失為世界進步人類的驕傲，他已被公認是全世界的文學泰鬥。列夫·托爾斯泰被列寜稱為“俄國革命的鏡子”

From the award-winning translators of "Anna Karenina" and "The Brothers Karamazov" comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork. War and Peace" "broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men. A s Napoleon's army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds--peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers--as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most moving--and human--figures in world literature.