War and Peace

From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/02/2008
ISBN: 9781400079988
Pages: 1296
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.90d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 12/21/2008 pg. 20
Entertainment Weekly 12/02/2011 pg. 82
Entertainment Weekly 01/22/2016 pg. 74

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 10048 / War and Peace
Reading Level: 10.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 118