War and Peace
By Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
- Release Date: 2007-10-16
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Description
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. • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
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.
Reviews
A new translation
5By rcnimanIgnore the other reviews complaining this is a money grab. You are free to get a public domain translation. But this is a different, much newer translation. Translators are allowed to make money too. I have this version in hardcover and love it. So, it is up to you whether it is worth paying for a translation (the same argument can be made for Les Miserables and many other works in translation), but no one is cheating anyone here.Why bother?
3By LeBleuet55This is a very nice translation, done very beautifully, but there are free versions in the iTunes Store that are just as good. Unless you want to read along to a specific audiobook, take one of the free versions and run.top 10 works of all time
5By KRAZYvKILL3Rafter taking a month to read this book i understand why people say this is one of the best works ever written. Count Lev spent 5 years writing this masterpiece expressing what he was going through and invited the world to come and enjoy. the writing in this goes from drama, romance, violence, philosophy, religion, and pretty much every topic you can imagine without going off track on what’s happening in the setting. that right there is why i love this book and will make it a must read on my list.Despicable Greed....
1By rah711As another has stated this is a blatant attempt to rip off customers. This is a public domain book and Apple should be ashamed, but given their prices of $1,000 phones it’s not at all surprising. Just how much money is enough? Greed at it’s worst. Look elsewhere and find it free of chargeWar And Peace
5By JRF 617The most insightful book I have ever read second only to Anna Karenia, A truly brilliant translationExpensive
5By Brandon C ThompsonGet the free (public domain) copy. Donate the 15 bucks.$15 for a public domain book?
1By "Apps"DestroySoulsThis is basically an attempt to rip off Apple customers who don’t notice the free downloads of the same book. This book has been in public domain for decades, so someone is deliberating adding this title to see how many people they can sucker into paying for it. Sure, maybe it’s a fabulous new translation, maybe there’s a new intro, but Apple needs to do a better job. My kid (who is 12) paid $15 for a download of Romeo & Juliet, when there were numerous free and 99 cent versions available, but Apple didn’t send a notification saying, “are you sure you want to spend your precious dollars on a free book?” GREEDY GREEDY GREEDY.GREAT
5By Prophet AmosProbably the greatest novel of all time. Must be read by all true Historians.
