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.
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