War And Peace
$49.37
- Hardcover
1440 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2016
Summary
A stunning clothbound edition of Tolstoy’s great novel, soon to be a major BBC drama
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241265543 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241265541 |
| Author: | Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs, Orlando Figes |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1440 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 1.22kg |
| Dimensions: | 207mm x 150mm x 64mm |
| Series: | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
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“There remains the greatest of all novelists-for what else can we call the author of War and Peace ?” - Virginia Woolf
A masterpiece … this new translation is excellent – Antony BeevorWar and Peace is like no other novel … Tolstoy writes of both war and peace more marvellously than anyone else has done – John Bayley * The Sunday Times *
About The Author
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.
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