Description

In the award winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this wonderful fresh interpretation of Tolstoy's masterwork. War and Peace extensively centers around Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the very well known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate child of the count who is battling for his inheritance and longing for spiritual satisfaction; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the lovely young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues equally men.A s Napoleon’s military invades, Tolstoy superbly follows characters from varied backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they have a problem with the issues unique to their period, their background, and their lifestyle. And whilst the book continues, their specificity is transcended by these characters, getting a few of the many moving—and human—figures in world literature.