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War and Peace
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Description for War and Peace
Paperback. From sophisticated Moscow soirees to breathless troika rides through the snow, from the bloody front line at Austerlitz to a wife's death in childbirth, the author conjures a broad panorama of rich, messy, beautiful and debased human life. Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series. Num Pages: 1296 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 215 x 60. Weight in Grams: 1152.
THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY 'If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it' The Times From sophisticated Moscow soirees to breathless troika rides through the snow, from the bloody front line at Austerlitz to a wife's death in childbirth, Tolstoy conjures a broad panorama of rich, messy, beautiful and debased human life. We follow the fates of open-hearted, impulsive Pierre Bezukhov, his melancholy friend Prince Andrei and the enchanting Natasha Rostov, as history and fiction ... Read more
THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY 'If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it' The Times From sophisticated Moscow soirees to breathless troika rides through the snow, from the bloody front line at Austerlitz to a wife's death in childbirth, Tolstoy conjures a broad panorama of rich, messy, beautiful and debased human life. We follow the fates of open-hearted, impulsive Pierre Bezukhov, his melancholy friend Prince Andrei and the enchanting Natasha Rostov, as history and fiction ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Vintage Classic Russians Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1296
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784871949
SKU
V9781784871949
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About Black & White Publishing
Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910. ... Read more
Reviews for War and Peace
If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it
The Times
This is, at last, a translation of War and Peace without the dreadful misunderstandings and improvements that plague all other translations of the novel into English. Pevear and ... Read more
The Times
This is, at last, a translation of War and Peace without the dreadful misunderstandings and improvements that plague all other translations of the novel into English. Pevear and ... Read more