War and Peace-轻识

From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy’s master epic.

War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezuk...

War and Peace 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.

Pevear 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. With stunning grace and precision, this new version of War and Peace is set to become the definitive English edition.

列夫·托尔斯泰(1828—1910)俄国伟大的批判现实主义作家、思想家。他的作品包括文学、宗教、哲学、美学、政论等著作，反映了俄国社会的一个时代，对世界文学产生了巨大影响。代表作有《战争与和平》《安娜·卡列宁娜》《复活》等。

刘辽逸(1915—2001)，原名刘长菘，安徽濉溪人，曾用名长松。1939年于西北联合大学俄文商业系毕业。1943年在桂林开始从事俄苏文学译介工作。译著有托尔斯泰的《战争与和平》《杜布罗夫斯基》《哈吉穆拉特》、高尔基的《童年》等。