War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

ISBN-13: 9781784871949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 1296 str.

Tolstoy Leo

Opis

From sophisticated Moscow soirees to breathless troika rides through the snow, from the bloody front line at Austerlitz to a wife's death in childbirth, the author conjures a broad panorama of rich, messy, beautiful and debased human life.

Recenzje

If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it The Times

O autorze

Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910.