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Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Fiction, Classics, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781784878955
Published: November 2024
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Page Extent: 1296
Format: Paperback
RRP 345.00

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear

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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 it' The Times
Tolstoy'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...

About the Author

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910.

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Larissa Volokhonsky

Larissa Volokhonsky

Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad.
She has translated the work of the prominent
Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann
and John Meyendorff.

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Richard Pevear

Richard Pevear

Richard Pevear has published translations of Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio and Pavel Florensky, as well as two books of poetry.

He has received fellowships for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the translation of The Brothers Karamazov.

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