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Description
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... read more
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Memorable Quotes
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“Wealth, power, life itself, all the things that men put so much effort into building up and maintaining, if they have any value at all, are never worth more than the pleasure to be had by renouncing them.”
Pierre
First Sentence
'Well, Prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than estates taken over by the Buonaparte family.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Leo Tolstoy (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Richard Pevear (Translator)
- Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
- Ann Dunnigan
- Constance Garnett
- Rosemary Edmonds
- Andrew Bromfield
- Aylmer Maude
- Louise Shanks Maude
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