War And Peace (Classics of Russian Literature) - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451530543 ISBN 13: 9780451530547

Publisher: Signet Classics, 2001

Synopsis

One of the greatest novelists of all time presents this classical epic of the Napoleonic Wars and their effects on four Russian families, exploring themes of humanity and personal destiny. Reprint.

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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

"From the Paperback edition."

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0451530543
• ISBN 13: 9780451530547
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 1456