War and Peace (Vintage Classics)

War and Peace (Vintage Classics) Paperback – December 2, 2008 by Leo Tolstoy (Author), Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator).

From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

War and Peacebroadly 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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 1296 pages
• Dimensions 157 x 236 x 61mm | 1,213g
• Publication date 02 Dec 2008
• Publisher Random House USA Inc
• Imprint Random House Inc
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Vintage Classics ed.
• ISBN10 1400079985
• ISBN13 9781400079988