The acclaimed new translation of Tolstoy's masterpiece, for the first time in Black Classics after the successful hardback and Red Classics editions - 10,000+ hbks and by time of BC 20,000+ of Red Classic sold
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born in Tula province and was educated
privately and at Kazan University. In 1851 he went to the Caucasus,
joined an artillery regiment & began his literary career. After
marrying in 1862, he began writing War and Peace, which was
finished in 1869. His second great work, Anna Karenina, was
finished in 1876. Professor Tony Briggs is former Professor of
Russian at the University of Birmingham, and is the author of six
books on Russian literature.
Professor Tony Briggs is former Professor of Russian at the
University of Birmingham, has translated widely from the Russian,
especially Pushkin, and is the author of several critical books on
Russian literature. Orlando Figes is Professor of History at
Birkbeck and the author of A People's Tragedy- The Russian
Revolution, 1891-1924, which was awarded the Wolfson Prize for
History and, most recently, Natasha's Dance- A Cultural History of
Russia.
“There remains the greatest of all novelists—for what else can we call the author of War and Peace?” —Virginia Woolf
"There remains the greatest of all novelists-for what else can we call the author of War and Peace?" -Virginia Woolf
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