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Books : War and Peace (Penguin Classics)In association with Amazon.comby: Leo Tolstoy  List Price: $16.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.88 You Save: $5.12 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 891.733 EAN: 9780140444179 ISBN: 0140444173 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1472 Publication Date: July 29, 1982 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Sales Rank: 71075 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Details the invasion of Russia by Napoleon and his army. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - What other authors leave in their headsTolstoy goes far beyond just hitting the peaks of the story but also, writes at length on the hills, valleys, and everything in between (the material that other authors leave out). It is exhaustively detailed, down to the most mundane description of a character. Being that the high-points are few and far, I did have to trudge through this mammoth work. But what an opportunity to perfect, enhance and, give character to our own writings, through these wonderful, brilliant prose. The ... Read More Rating:  - Great Book!!I am loving this book because it gives me something to keep my mind active during my down time!! Rating: - War and Upstairs-DownstairsThe nineteenth century was the era of the great novel. The twentieth may have seen far more, but 20th-Century novels are basically dispo-lit: throw-aways not expected to endure: published in paperback, and rightly. "Atlas Shrugged" (1951) was the last "great" novel. The worst shortcoming of 19th-Century novelists was their tendency to get the train of story stalled on irrelevant sidetracks while they explored history and geography: Dickens & Dumas wandered afield, but divertingly, ... Read More Rating: - Great story, but terrible historical accuracy....For me at first the novel started pretty good, and was quite one of the best I ever read, but from the half part of the book on after the french invasion of Russia, I was shocked to see so much historicals inaccuracies, and descriptions that seemed more and more propagandistic. For example his description of Napoleon, as a tiny egocentric man, that believes his own lies, and this is the secret from his victory, obviuosly seem more of Russian propaganda than anything else. And besides the Battle of Borodino, ... Read More Rating: - Rosemary Edmonds trans. of War and PeaceI'm suprised not to see anyone mention Rosemary Edmonds' translation of this masterful work. Her translation, published by Penguin Classics, is really quite good, and reads smoothly, and it seems accurate to what Tolstoy would have considered his message. I highly recommend this translation of War and Peace. Browse for similar items by category:
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