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Knopf
October 2007
On Sale: October 16, 2007
1296 pages
ISBN: 0307266931
EAN: 9780307266934
Hardcover (reprint)
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Literature and Fiction Classics
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the
best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and
The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and
eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy’s master epic. War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon’s invasion of
Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-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 behind his family to fight in the war against
Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter
of a nobleman, who intrigues both men. As Napoleon’s army
invades, Tolstoy vividly 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. Pevear and Volokhonsky have brought us this classic novel in
a translation remarkable for its fidelity to Tolstoy’s style
and cadence and for its energetic, accessible prose. With
stunning grace and precision, this new version of War and
Peace is set to become the definitive English edition.
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