War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy

by Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Introduction), Leo Tolstoy (Author), Leo Tolstoy (Author), Larissa Volokhonsky (Introduction), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator), Leo Tolstoy (Author), Richard Pevear (Introduction), Richard Pevear (Translator)

Synopsis

On this new year day 2015 - Listen in to BBC Radio 4'S 10-Hour, Adaptation of War & Peace, starring John Hurt and Simon Russell-Beale! War and Peace is one of the richest novels ever written. Tolstoy's enthralling epic combines history and fiction in his depiction of Russia's lengthy war with the French armies of Napoleon and its effects on the domestic lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital and involving characters in literature as he follows the rise and fall of families in St Petersburg and Moscow who are linked by their personal and political relationships. His heroes are the thoughtful yet impulsive Pierre Bezukhov, his intelligent and ambitious friend, Prince Andrei, and the woman who becomes indispensable to both of them, the enchanting Natasha Rostova. Stunningly translated with remarkable fidelity to the all-important tone of Tolstoy's original, and including an introduction, notes, a chapter summary and an index of historical figures, this edition of War and Peace is destined to become the definitive English translation for our time.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 1296
Edition: 1
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 08 Nov 2007

ISBN 10: 0099512238
ISBN 13: 9780099512233