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.
Sobre o autor(a)
Tolstoy, Leo
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) é considerado um dos maiores escritores de todos os tempos da literatura ocidental. Depois de interromper os estudos, participou da Guerra da Crimeia e se casou em 1862 com Sofia Behrs, com quem teve treze filhos. De volta à vasta propriedade da família, dedicou-se a educar os camponeses e escreveu algumas das obras mais relevantes, como Guerra e Paz (1869) e Anna Karenina (1877), além de numerosas reflexões sobre arte, sociedade e educação. |
| ISBN | 9781400079988 |
| Autor(a) | Tolstoy, Leo |
| Editora | Vintage |
| Ano de edição | 2008 |
| Páginas | 1296 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |