WAR AND PEACE 1
Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Rosemary Edmonds Penguin Classics
Condition:
Good, with expected age-wear to the cover edges and mild rubbing to the spine and corners. The binding is firm and the text remains clean and fully legible.Mildly toned pages.
About the Book:
The first volume of Rosemary Edmondss celebrated Penguin translation presents the opening movement of Tolstoys vast historical noveloften regarded as the greatest in any language.
Covering Russian family life and political tensions in the years surrounding Napoleons advance, this volume carries the narrative up to the appearance of the famed comet before the French crossing of the Niemen. Edmondss translation is admired for its clarity, pace, and accessibility, bringing Tolstoys philosophical depth, psychological precision, and panoramic scenes vividly into English.
This particular edition features a cover image from the British Broadcasting Corporation / Time-Life Films television adaptation, adding a period-specific visual layer of interest for collectors.
About the Author:
Leo Tolstoy (18281910) stands as one of the great novelists and moral thinkers of the modern world. His work unites historical observation, existential questioning, social critique, and a profound interest in the moral struggles of ordinary life. War and Peace, begun a few years after his marriage, remains his most ambitious and humanity-saturated achievement.
