{"product_id":"war-and-peace-9781400079988","title":"War and Peace","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Read\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePevear 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCount Leo Tolstoy\u003c\/b\u003e (1828-1910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world fame. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Pevear\u003c\/b\u003e has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky, and Henri Volohonsky, as well as two books of poetry. He has received fellowships or grants for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the French Ministry of Culture. \u003cb\u003eLarissa Volokhonsky\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Leningrad. She has translated works by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff into Russian. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether, Pevear and Volokhonsky have translated \u003cb\u003eDead Souls and The Collected Stories\u003c\/b\u003e by Nikolai Gogol, \u003cb\u003eThe Complete Short Novels of Chekhov\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDemons\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThe Adolescent\u003c\/b\u003e by Fyodor Dostoevsky. They were twice awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for their version of Dostoevsky's \u003cb\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/b\u003e and for Tolstoy's \u003cb\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/b\u003e), and their translation of Dostoevsky's Demons was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50569775710482,"sku":"9781400079988","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_88c0b907-87c8-4d7d-8e32-c17855efeddd.jpg?v=1731957015","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/war-and-peace-9781400079988","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}