War and peace / Leo Tolstoy ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.

"This translation of War and Peace has been made from the text in volumes 4-7 of the Collected works in twenty volumes, by Leo Tolstoy, published by Goslitizdat, Moscoe, in 1962"--T.p. verso.

Translated from the Russian.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [1223]-1247) and index.

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 Peacecenters 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.