EAN: 9781784871949

TOLSTOY LEO WAR AND PEACE (VINTAGE CLASSIC RUSS...

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 are combined in one of the wisest and most enthralling
novels ever written. "A joy to read...The sense of actually being in the skin of these people
is phenomenally  brilliantly rendered by this translation". (Simon Schama). The Vintage Classic
Russians Series: Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution  these are
must-have  beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived
controversy  censorship and suppression to influence decades of thought and artistic expression

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