ISBN10: 1400079985, ISBN13: 9781400079988, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. 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 Tolstoys master epic. Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American ReadWar and Peace centers broadly on Napoleons 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 Napoleons army invades, Tolstoy vividly follows characters from diverse backgroundspeasants and nobility, civilians and soldiersas 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 movingand humanfigures in world literature.Pevear and Volokhonsky have brought us this classic novel in a translation remarkable for its fidelity to Tolstoys style and cadence and for its energetic, accessible prose. From Pevear and Volokhonsky, the bestselling, award-winning translators of "Anna Karenina" ...
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