War and Peace - Paperback
by Leo Tolstoy
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Availability:In StockContributor:Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs (Translator), Anthony Briggs (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2/24/2009Pages:1440
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140447934ISBN-10:140447938UPC:9780140447934Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, War & Military, HistoricalSize:7.84 x 5.12 x 2.45 inchesWeight:2.1517Product ID:SCY5WX90BJ
War and Peace
Antony's Brigg's acclaimed translation of Tolstoy's great Russian epic. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace--presented here in the first new English translation in forty years--is often considered the greatest novel ever written. At its center are Pierre Bezukhov,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140447934ISBN-10:140447938UPC:9780140447934Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, War & Military, HistoricalSize:7.84 x 5.12 x 2.45 inchesWeight:2.1517Product ID:SCY5WX90BJ
Count Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University in 1844. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty in the army, serving as a junior officer in the Crimean War before retiring in 1857. In...
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs (Translator), Anthony Briggs (Introduction by)
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