'If you've never read it,now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace,you live it'The TimesTolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital and involving characters in literature as he follows the rise and fall of families in St Petersburg and Moscow who are linked by their personal and political relationships. His heroes are the thoughtful yet impulsive Pierre Bezukhov,his ambitious friend,Prince Andrei,and the woman who becomes indispensable to both of them,the enchanting Natasha Rostov.'It is simply the greatest novel ever written. All human life is in it. If I were told there was time to read only a single book,this would be it'Andrew MarrVINTAGE CLASSICS RUSSIAN SERIES - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784871949Number of pages: 1296Weight: 1132 gDimensions: 216 x 153 x 54 mm
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If you've never read it,now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace,you live itThis is,at last,a translation of War and Peace without the dreadful misunderstandings and "improvements" that plague all other translations of the novel into English.Pevear and Volokhonsky's supple and compelling translation is the closest that an English reader without Russian can get to Tolstoy's masterwork.This is a great achievement.It is hard to imagine how this translation could be superseded."It is simply the greatest novel ever written. All human life is in it. If I were told there was time to read only a single book,this would be itReveals Tolstoy in his majestic scope and precision to this reader for the first time,unencumbered by the pidgin archaisms of previous translations,ringing with mastery and truthIt may sound pretentious,or strange,but I can remember the weeks (three weeks,to be precise) I spent reading War and Peace as a peak experience of sustained excitement and deep delight. Part of the delight was the largeness and strangeness of this world - the sense of the vastness and extremes of Russia,the unboundedness of everything
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