War and Peace

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War and Peace

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ISBN: 9781400079988
author: Leo Tolstoy
translator: Larissa Volokhonsky / Richard Pevear
publishing house: Vintage
publication date: 2008
binding: Paperback
price: USD 20.00
number of pages: 1296

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Leo Tolstoy    translator: Larissa Volokhonsky / Richard Pevear

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From the award-winning translators of "Anna Karenina" and "The Brothers Karamazov" comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork. War and Peace" "broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-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 his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men. A s Napoleon's army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly 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.

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