Name: War and Peace: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Leo Tolstoy
Brand: Leo Tolstoy
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nA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Tolstoy's great Russian epic. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read nSet against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace--presented here in the first new English translation in forty years--is often considered the greatest novel ever written. At its center are Pierre Bezukhov, searching for meaning in his life; cynical Prince Andrei, ennobled by wartime suffering; and Natasha Rostov, whose impulsiveness threatens to destroy her happiness. As Tolstoy follows the changing fortunes of his characters, he crafts a view of humanity that is both epic and intimate and that continues to define fiction at its most resplendent. n nThis edition includes an introduction, note on the translation, cast of characters, maps, notes on the major battles depicted, and chapter summaries. n nPraise for Antony Brigg's translation of War and Peace n n The best translation so far of Tolstoy's masterpiece into English. n -Robert A. Maguire, professor emeritus of Russian studies, Columbia University n n 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. . . . Briggs has rendered both with a particular exactness and a vigorous precision not to be found, I think, in any previous translation. n -John Bayley, author of Elegy for Iris n nFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of