War and Peace War and Peace

War and Peace

Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Leo Tolstoy and Others
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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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2007
October 16
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
1,296
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
11.1
MB

Customer Reviews

Brandon C Thompson ,

Expensive

Get the free (public domain) copy. Donate the 15 bucks.

Prophet Amos ,

GREAT

Probably the greatest novel of all time. Must be read by all true Historians.

R. Rockwood ,

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.”

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