书名：War and Peace战争与和平
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1120L
作者：Leo Tolstoy
出版社名称：Vintage Classics
出版时间：2017
语种：英文
ISBN：9781784871949
商品尺寸：15.3 x 5.5 x 21.6 cm
包装：平装
页数：1296（以实物为准）
War and Peace《战争与和平》是一部宏伟巨著，它以战争问题为中心，以库拉金、包尔康斯基、劳斯托夫、别竺豪夫四家贵族的生活为线索，展示了19世纪初15年的俄国历史，描绘了各个阶级的生活，是一部再现当时社会风貌的恢弘史诗。作品中的各色人物刻画精准细腻，景物如临眼前，虽是19世纪的小说作品，但流传至今，却没有任何隔阂感，其中流露出来对人性的悲悯情怀，穿越时空背景，仍旧撼动人心。《战争与和平》恢弘的构思和艺术描写震惊世界文坛，成为举世公认的世界文学名著和人类宝贵的精神财富。英国作家毛姆及诺贝尔文学奖得主罗曼·罗兰称赞它是“有史以来伟大的小说”，“是我们时代伟大的史诗，是近代的伊利亚特”。

THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY
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, Tolstoy conjures a broad panorama of rich, messy, beautiful and debased human life. We follow the fates of open-hearted, impulsive Pierre Bezukhov, his melancholy friend Prince Andrei and the enchanting Natasha Rostov, as history and fiction are combined in one of the wisest and most enthralling novels ever written.
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Review
"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)

"It is simply the greatest novel ever written. All human life is in it. If I were told there was time to read only a single book, this would be it" (Andrew Marr)

"Reveals Tolstoy in his majestic scope and precision to this reader for the first time, unencumbered by the pidgin archaisms of previous translations, ringing with mastery and truth" (Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year)

"It may sound pretentious, or strange, but I can remember the weeks I spent reading War and Peace as a peak experience of sustained excitement and deep delight."(Finacial Times)
俄罗斯伟大作家列·托尔斯泰的War and Peace《战争与和平》是世界文学史上一部不朽名著。作者以高超的艺术技巧塑造了一系列鲜明的人物形象，写尽了各种人情世态。书中共有五百五十九个人物，上至皇帝、王公、外交官、将领、贵族；下至地主、商人、农民、士兵，如此众多的人物，在善于表现人物心理与性格特征的艺术大师的笔下，被赋予了一种崭新的视觉和色彩，男女主人公们以自己精神生活的全部复杂性和独特性出现在读者面前。本书具有史诗的气魄，画面广阔，人物众多。书中既有俄国和西欧重大历史事件的记叙，又有故事情节的虚构；既写了金戈铁马、刀光血影的战斗，又写了安逸宁静的日常生活；既有慷慨激昂的议人论世，又有细腻婉约的抒情述怀。

著名作家屠格涅夫称这部小说为“伟大作家的伟大作品”，说从中可以“更加直接和更加准确地了解俄罗斯人民的性格和气质以及整个俄国生活”，读它“胜过读几百部有关民族学和历史的著作”。
列夫·尼古拉耶维奇·托尔斯泰，19世纪中期俄国批判现实主义作家、思想家，哲学家，代表作有《战争与和平》、《安娜·卡列尼娜》、《复活》等。托尔斯泰晚年力求过简朴的平民生活，1910年10月从家中出走，11月病逝于一个小站，享年82岁。

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is the author of Anna Karenina, War and Peace and The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
War and Peace is the most famous and at the same time the most daunting of Russian novels, as vast as Russia itself and as long to cross from one end to the other. Yet if one makes the journey, the sights seen and the people met on the way mark one's life for ever. The book is set in the period of the Napoleonic wars (1805-12) and tells of the interweaving of historical events with the private lives of two very different families of the Russian nobility-the severe Bolkonskys and the easygoing Rostovs -- and of a singular man, reminiscent of the author himself-Count Pierre Bezukhov. It embodies the national myth of "Russia's glorious period," as Tolstoy himself called it, in the confrontation of the emperor Napoleon and Field Marshal Kutuzov, and at the same time it challenges that myth and all such myths through the vivid portrayal of the fates of countless ordinary people of the period, men and women, young and old, French as well as Russian, and through the author's own passionate questioning of the truth of history.

Tolstoy wrote that he "spent five years of ceaseless and exclusive labour, under the best conditions of life," working on War and Peace. Those were the years from 1863 to I868. He was thirty-five when he began. The year before, he had married Sofya Behrs, the daughter of a Moscow doctor, who was eighteen, and they had moved permanently to his estate at Yasnaya Polyana, in Tula province, a hundred and twenty miles south of Moscow. She bore him four children while he worked on the book, was his first reader (or listener), and was in part the model for his heroine, Natasha Rostov.

The orderliness and routine of family life and estate managerment were not only the best conditions for work, they were also new conditions for Tolstoy.

His mother had died when he was two. His father had moved to Moscow with the children in 1830, but died himself seven years later, and the children were eventually taken to Kazan by their aunt. Tolstoy entered Kazan University in 1844 but never graduated; his later attempts to pass examinations at Petersburg University also led to nothing. In 1851, after several years of idle and dissipated life in Moscow and Petersburg, he visited the Caucasus with his brother Nikolai, who was in the army, and there took part in a raid on a Chechen village, which he described a year later in a story entitled "The Raid," his first attempt to capture the actuality of warfare in words. His experiences in the Caucasus were also reflected in his novel The Cossacks, which he began writing in 1853 but finished only nine years later, and in his very last piece of fiction, the superb short novel Hadji Murad, completed in 1904 but published only posthumously.

In 1852, he joined the army as a noncommissioned officer and served in Wallachia. Two years later he was promoted to ensign and was transferred at his own request to the Crimea, where he fought in the Crimean War and was present at the siege of Sevastopol. His Sevastopol Sketches, which were published in 1855, made him famous in Petersburg social and literary circles. They were a second and fuller attempt at a true depiction of war.