War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo
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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.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/02/2008
Pages: 1296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 2.10d
ISBN: 9781400079988
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.1
Point Value: 118
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10048 / War and Peace
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/21/2008 pg. 20
Entertainment Weekly 12/02/2011 pg. 82
Entertainment Weekly 01/22/2016 pg. 74
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/02/2008
Pages: 1296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 2.10d
ISBN: 9781400079988
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.1
Point Value: 118
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10048 / War and Peace
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/21/2008 pg. 20
Entertainment Weekly 12/02/2011 pg. 82
Entertainment Weekly 01/22/2016 pg. 74
About the Author
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world fame.
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