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“Shimmering....[it] offers an opportunity to see this great classic afresh, to approach it not as a monument but rather as a deeply touching story about our contradictory human hearts.” —Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World
“Excellent....an extraordinary achievement....wonderfully fresh and readable....The English-speaking world is indebted to these two magnificent translators for revealing more of its hidden riches than any who have tried to translated the book before.” —Orlando Figes, New York Review of Books
“Stunning....Pevear and Volokhonsky have mastered Tolstoy's shorter lines, his elliptical impressions.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Reading the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation, it is the artistry that leaps out, even on the first page.” —Wall Street Journal
“A major new translation . . . [which] brings us the palpability [of Tolstoy’s characters] as perhaps never before. . . . Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s new translation gives us new access to the spirit and order of the book.” —James Wood, The New Yorker --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
“Excellent....an extraordinary achievement....wonderfully fresh and readable....The English-speaking world is indebted to these two magnificent translators for revealing more of its hidden riches than any who have tried to translated the book before.” —Orlando Figes, New York Review of Books
“Stunning....Pevear and Volokhonsky have mastered Tolstoy's shorter lines, his elliptical impressions.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Reading the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation, it is the artistry that leaps out, even on the first page.” —Wall Street Journal
“A major new translation . . . [which] brings us the palpability [of Tolstoy’s characters] as perhaps never before. . . . Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s new translation gives us new access to the spirit and order of the book.” —James Wood, The New Yorker --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.
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.
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.
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Majestic !,
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This review is from: War and Peace (Paperback)
What a grand, sweeping and majestic piece of literature. A work of fiction, history and philosophy all in one. Both enrapturing and infuriating. Enraptured by the level of detail and the ability to paint a mental image in one's mind with such marvellous prose and style by drawing the reader into the lives and emotions of the main characters as well as the culture that existed in 19th century Russia, as well as describe the events, the sounds and the immediacy of battle and those who took part in it within the backdrop of the Napoleon`s eastward march, unlike anything I've read since Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning `The Killer Angels'. Infuriating in trying to keep straight the intertwining characters of all three families with their confusing Russian names, and the constant switch of dialogue to French, forcing one to endlessly refer to the translation at the bottom of the page. And I most certainly could have done without Tolstoy's tediously mind-numbing philosophizing of war and the course of human events in the concluding epilogue. Such is the work of great literature, I suppose. Admittedly, there were a couple of times I was tempted to cast the book aside, but the pull exerted by the Balkonskys, Bezukhovs and Rostovs proved too strong not to learn how their fates would conclude.Daunting !
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The greatest novel I have ever read,
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Very rarely can an author create characters that are so multidimensional. They are neither bad nor good, simply human. No author that I have read can so perfectly describe the human experience so eloquently and unpretentiously. It is timeless. Eventhough it takes place in a time and era that has long since disapeared you can relate with the characters as if they were alive today. This book, so simply written is in my opinion, one of the greatest novels ever written. Reading it will make you a better person. A must read for humanists everywhere.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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There is no book like it.,
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This review is from: War and Peace (Hardcover)
There is no book like it, but you have to read this translation. The most remarkable gift is that here we have a supremely talented writer who is also an advanced spiritual being. The result is a creation of characters that achieve not only powerful life experiences but also very profound spiritual experiences that are shocking in how true they are. Only a spiritual adept could know what Tolstoy knows. And here's a bonus: The book is an effortless read - a page-turner. Who would have thought? But beware the ending: I found the ending supremely frustrating, just as I found the rest of the book supremely enthralling. The story actually ends when Nikolenka awakens from the dream of his father - Prince Andrei - and declares he will 'do something', with an ominous reference to Mucius Scaevola burning his hand. A foreboding reference at end of Part 1 of the epilogue, and I eagerly turned the page to the final chapter to find out what happens. As I waded through Part 2 and Tolstoy's philosophical reflections, I fully expected to find some resolution to these surviving characters. I was astonished as it dawned on me that the story itself had already ended.
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