War and Peace
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy’s master epic. • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-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 behind his family to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman, who intrigues both men. As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy vividly 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.
Pevear and Volokhonsky have brought us this classic novel in a translation remarkable for its fidelity to Tolstoy’s style and cadence and for its energetic, accessible prose.
Customer Reviews
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GREAT
Probably the greatest novel of all time. Must be read by all true Historians.
A Long and Bloody Saga
The novel has many interesting characters and intriguing interpersonal relationships. The author spends a great deal of time philosophizing on the concepts of war and human nature. Possibly a good book for today’s war mongers to read or reread. The book has quite a bit of French to translate. Otherwise, I thought the book was like a Russian version of “Gone with the Wind.”