War and Peace (Vintage Classics)

War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy

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Author: Leo Tolstoy
Translator: Richard Pevear
Translator: Larissa Volokhonsky
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-12-02
ISBN: 1400079985
Number of pages: 1296
Publisher: Vintage

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Book Review: Translation good. Footnotes disconcerting.
Summary: 4 Stars

I am enjoying reading this new translation (the hardback version). I like the translators' decision to translate Tolstoy's words relatively literally, so that, for example, they put a two-word Russian sentence as "Drops dripped" in English rather than some longer rendition, in order to preserve at least some of the "lyrical intensity" of Tolstoy's words.

On the other hand, I find it very annoying that the French text is preserved in the main body of the pages, with the English translations in the footnotes. It is extremely disconcerting to me, since I can't read French, to have to jump back and forth to and from the footnotes. I would have much preferred to have the English translations of the French in the main body and the original French in the footnotes, even though Tolstoy himself put the French in the main body. He was writing apparently for readers who could read both Russian and French, but this English translation is presumably for those of us who read neither.

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Summary of War and Peace (Vintage Classics)

From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.

War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-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 his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.

A s Napoleon's army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly 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.

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