War and Peace - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451516613 ISBN 13: 9780451516619

Publisher: Signet Classics, 1968

Synopsis

Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this classic novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, wisdom and folly, painful defeats and enduring triumphs. Here is the seemingly effortless artistry of a master. Here, finally, is a view of history and personal destiny that is perpetually modern.

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Review

There remains the greatest of all novelists for what else can we call the author of War and Peace? Virginia Woolf"

"There remains the greatest of all novelists--for what else can we call the author of War and Peace?" --Virginia Woolf

From the Publisher

Packaged like the best most desirable literary fiction - the perfect Christmas gift. It Includes a translator's introduction, a chronology of Tolstoy's life and works, a list of characters, further reading, and four maps.
'This is the best translation so far of Tolstoy's masterpiece into English. It achieves the difficult feat of combining faithfulness to the original with smooth, idiomatic English. The result is a triumph of cultural mediation' – Robert Maguire, Professor of Russian, Columbia University, New York
'In Tolstoy’s work part of the translator’s difficulty lies in conveying not only the simplicity but the subtlety of the book’s scale and effect… Professor Briggs has rendered them both with a particular exactness and a vigorous precision not to be found, I think, in any previous translation' - John Bayley

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451516613
• ISBN 13: 9780451516619
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback