| War and Peace Vintage Classic Edition Contributor(s): Tolstoy, Leo (Author), Pevear, Richard (Translator), Volokhonsky, Larissa (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1400079985 ISBN-13: 9781400079988 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: From Pevear and Volokhonsky, the bestselling, award-winning translators of "Anna Karenina" and "The Brothers Karamazov," comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy's master epic. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009291036 |
| Lexile Measure: 1200 |
| Series: Vintage Classics |
| Physical Information: 2.1" H x 6.1" W x 9" (2.15 lbs) 1296 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 10048 Reading Level: 10.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 118.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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 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. |