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War And Peace

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780140447934

  • Length: 1440  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 61mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 969g

  • RRP: £9.99

War And Peace

  • Leo Tolstoy

  • Orlando Figes (Afterword by)

  • Anthony Briggs (Translator)

'A book that you don't just read, you live' Simon Schama

Tolstoy's magnificent epic novel of love, conflict, fate and human life in all its imperfection and grandeur

War and Peace begins at a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, where conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants to soldiers and Napoleon himself.

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Anthony Briggs with an Afterword by Orlando Figes

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780140447934

  • Length: 1440  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 61mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 969g

  • RRP: £9.99

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.

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