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Prince andrei bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against napoleon. Translated by richard pevear and larissa volokhonsky vintage classics kindle edition by tolstoy, leo, pevear, richard, volokhonsky, larissa. War and peace is as much an historical treatise as it is a novel and i became as engaged in the story of the napoleonic war in russia as in the lives of the principal characters. Many considered this book to be the best russian work of literature of all time and it is massive in scale. In war and peace, leo tolstoy used extremely concise words, amazing psychoanalysis to shape a series of vivid, lively characters. In war and peace tolstoy develops his idea that as long as. 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. The translators have provided the following volume i. Pevear and volokhonskys supple and compelling translation is the closest that an english reader without russian can get to tolstoys masterwork.
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War and peace tolstoy leo, pevear richard, volokhonsky. The novel charts the history of the french invasion of russia, and the impact of the napoleonic era on tsarist society, through the stories of five russian aristocratic families. Apr 01, 2001 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Librivox public domain recording of war and peace, book 01, by leo tolstoy. War and peace vintage classic russians series vintage. Mar 24, 2010 im planning to read war and peace soon, and having shopped around a bit ive seen there are not only lots of different covers to choose from and i do love book covers, but also several different translations. War and peace by leo tolstoy, richard pevear, larissa. War and peace is a novel whose story takes place in early 19th century russia in the midst of russias war of 1812. Download our free epub, pdf or mobi ebooks to read on almost any device your desktop, iphone, ipad, android phone or tablet, amazon kindle and more. War and peace isbn 9781400079988 pdf epub richard pevear. This translation will show that you dont read war and peace, you live it the times tolstoys enthralling epic depicts russias war with napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. War and peace and tolstoys other major prose work, anna karenina 187377, are considered tolstoys finest literary achievements. War and peace pevearvolokhonsky translation by leo.
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