num_pages: 1273
description: From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy’s master epic.War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-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 behind his family to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman, who intrigues both men. As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy vividly 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.Pevear and Volokhonsky have brought us this classic novel in a translation remarkable for its fidelity to Tolstoy’s style and cadence and for its energetic, accessible prose. With stunning grace and precision, this new version of War and Peace is set to become the definitive English edition.
language: English
title: War and Peace
titlecomplete: War and Peace
characters: Anna Scherer, Lise Bolkonskaya, Maria Bolkonskaya, Vera Rostova, Platon Karataev, Petya Rostov, Nikolai Rostov, Mikhail Kutuzov, Vasili Denisov, Adolf Berg, Fedja Dolochov, Sonya Rostova, Ilya Rostov, Nikolai Bolkonsky, Anna Drubetskaya, Pierre Bezukhov, Boris Drubetskoy, Anatole Kuragin, Helene Kuragina, Osip Basdeev, Mademoiselle Bourienne, Natasha Rostova, Prince Andrey Bokonsky
genres: Classics, Historical, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 318180
places: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Russia
awards: awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Audie Award
category: Literary Fiction & Classics and Nominee for Best Female Narrator
publisher: Knopf