War and Peace

War and PeaceFrom 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 ReadWar 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

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 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/02/2008
ISBN: 9781400079988
Pages: 1296
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.90d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 12/21/2008 pg. 20
Entertainment Weekly 12/02/2011 pg. 82
Entertainment Weekly 01/22/2016 pg. 74

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 10048 / War and Peace
Reading Level: 10.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 118