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010 _a2007015989
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050 0 0 _aPG3366
_b.V6 2007
082 0 0 _aFIC TOL
100 1 _aTolstoi, Lev Nikolaevich
_c, conde
_d(, 1828-1910)
240 1 0 _aVoina i mir
_l. English
245 1 0 _aWar and peace
_c/ Leo Tolstoy ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
250 _a1st ed
260 _aNew York
_b: Alfred A. Knopf
_c, 2007.
300 _axviii, 1273 p.
_c; 25 cm.
500 _a"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
500 _a"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.
500 _aTranslated from the Russian.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [1223]-1247) and index.
520 _aFrom 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.
650 _aNapoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
_x-Fiction
651 4 _aRussia
_x-History
_y-Alexander I, 1801-1825
_v--Fiction
700 1 _aPevear, Richard, 1943-
700 1 _aVolokhonsky, Larissa
942 _cMO
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