WAR AND PEACE

A NEW TRANSLATION BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY Tolstoy's enthrallin
g epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those
caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital and involving chara
cters in literature as he follows the rise and fall of families in St Petersburg
and Moscow who are linked by their personal and political relationships. His he
roes are the thoughtful yet impulsive Pierre Bezukhov, his ambitious friend, Pri
nce Andrei, and the woman who becomes indispensable to both of them, the enchant
ing Natasha Rostov.