War and Peace - Hardcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781398100 ISBN 13: 9781781398104

Publisher: Benediction Classics, 2017

Synopsis

The great writers of the last two centuries have competed with each other to heap praise on Leo Tolstoy and War and Peace. "What an artist and what a psychologist!"-- Gustave Flaubert, Tolstoy's contemporary, on reading War and Peace. More recently, Virginia Woolf commented "There remains the greatest of all novelists, for what else can we call the author of War and Peace?"

Louise and Aylmer Maude, the translators of this edition, knew Tolstoy personally, and he approved this translation.

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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."

Shimmering. . . . [It] offers an opportunity to see this great classic afresh, to approach it not as a monument but rather as a deeply touching story about our contradictory human hearts.
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World
A major new translation . . . [which] brings us the palpability [of Tolstoy's characters] as perhaps never before. . . . Pevear and Volokhonsky's new translation gives us new access to the spirit and order of the book.
James Wood, The New Yorker
Excellent. . . . An extraordinary achievement. . . . Wonderfully fresh and readable. . . . The English-speaking world is indebted to these two magnificent translators for revealing more of its hidden riches than any who have tried to translated the book before.
Orlando Figes, The New York Review of Books
"Tolstoy's War and Peace has often been put in a league with Homer's epic poems; it seems to me that the same might be said for Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation of his great novel. . . . Their efforts convey a much closer equivalent in English to the experience of reading the original."
Michael Katz, New England Review
Full review here: http: //www.nereview.com/29-4/29-4Katz.htm"

"Shimmering. . . . [It] offers an opportunity to see this great classic afresh, to approach it not as a monument but rather as a deeply touching story about our contradictory human hearts."
--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

"A major new translation . . . [which] brings us the palpability [of Tolstoy's characters] as perhaps never before. . . . Pevear and Volokhonsky's new translation gives us new access to the spirit and order of the book."
--James Wood, The New Yorker

"Excellent. . . . An extraordinary achievement. . . . Wonderfully fresh and readable. . . . The English-speaking world is indebted to these two magnificent translators for revealing more of its hidden riches than any who have tried to translated the book before."
--Orlando Figes, The New York Review of Books

"Tolstoy's War and Peace has often been put in a league with Homer's epic poems; it seems to me that the same might be said for Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation of his great novel. . . . Their efforts convey a much closer equivalent in English to the experience of reading the original."
--Michael Katz, New England Review
Full review here: http: //www.nereview.com/29-4/29-4Katz.htm

Review:

`reveals Tolstoy in his majestic scope and precision to this reader for the first time...ringing with mastery and truth'

About this edition

• Publisher: Benediction Classics
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1781398100
• ISBN 13: 9781781398104
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1002