War And Peace

Paper is good quality. I finished the book, and loved the story of L. Tolstoy. He explained the war sequence, reasons, his view about napoleon are splendid. Translation is acceptable. I felt almyer maude translation is short compared to briggs. Otherwise briggs also good.Text are small, but readable.

Nice quality of paper and bookcover

Book cover was a bit damaged, story is amazing and overall good.

This is one of the best investments in books that i have ever made, if not THE best one. The books itself if good, the concept its excellent and engaging and has the potential to challenge the readers’ intellectual boundaries (the translation is also a decent one, if not among the best out there). I also thank Amazon for delivering the product promptly and safely with the perfect condition. The book came inside a three layered packaging, and not a single page was damaged or harmed in any way. For Penguin, i always have loved and do love penguin’s publications, I prefer it over most of the publications out there in the market. I am absolutely amazed how they managed to make a book that contains 1400 pages with this quality of pages and prices within this affordable price range. Absolutely love it!

Very good

Received book in perfect condition. Print quality is also amazing.

Penguin Classics War and Peace [Leo Tolstoy]. Translated by Anthony Briggs

Although the product was good I mean in terms of fiction it is surely a masterpiece . You may find the opening chapters bit boring but once you cross 250 pages you simply won't be able to put the book down. talking about product quality I am sad to receive it in a damaged condition . The books cover had a crease which I had to cello- tape , the book had many minor creases especially on the back. The back of the cover had scratches on the top left corner and the book had depressions. Although there were no torn or missing pages yet first 3 pages immediately following the cover were slightly(about 2 cm in length) torn,yet it is acceptable. The book's font disappointed me as they were bit small and the book is too bulky to keep it on table. Basically all the damages suffered by the book were the seller's fault as I received it in a properly wrapped package covered with foam. Hope Amazon takes it into notice and gives me a small refund to compensate for the damages.

My journey through war and peace has just been something else. War and Peace is a beautiful, dazzling piece of literature. At its heart describing the human condition with a clarity and richness I have never experienced reading before. Tolstoy conveys emotion with so few words. At times I felt not enough words, as when he just kills off a character so quickly, and although I wanted more at these times, he was giving us reality. He has the ability to see inside you and creates a narrative with so many emotions and sensations, that you feel you are experiencing it yourself. It is a complex and untidy book, but I actually loved this. There isn’t really a start middle and end - the book just sort of stops and that is weird but it makes you feel that the characters all just continue living within history as it continues. He weaves history and the characters experiences together in an astonishing way, there is a real richness to it that I won’t forget. He shows us how messy history is, it’s not boxed up neatly for us as in a textbook. It is ongoing, with blurred lines, and no control so that you cannot identify the ‘right side’. This book is for everyone, don’t be put off. It is readable, funny, rich, complex and simply a literary triumph. I will definitely read this again through my life as I feel it has so much more to give me and I will take new meanings from it each time I read.

If you want to read War and Peace but don't know which translation you'd get. Hopefully my review will help. If you want everything in English [British it is!], then this translation is perfect! But if you want to know who speaks French at what occassion, get Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky's translation. Both are good! But for first time reader I do recommend this book translated by Anthony Briggs! The pages are not easily torn, too.

The paperback is torn and in bad condition.

プーチン大統領の愛読書であり「世界最大の小説」と称されてる本書を私ごとき豚児が書評をかける故もないのですがその素晴らしさに圧倒され筆をとりました。多少の小説は読みました、「風と共に去りぬ」、「大地」そして「誰がために鐘はなる」、全て素晴らしい作品ですが、「戦争と平和」がこれらに与えた影響は多大です。トルストイ以前の哲学と宗教に加え科学的見地を加えた世界観・人間観が全く新しい見方をもたらしてます。仏語を日常に使用し、王室と女性にしか興味のないロシア貴族階級が、ナポレオンの侵攻にどう対応するのかが、本書の主題です。愛国心に満ちた若き貴公子が初陣であっけなく頭を射貫かれ、狡猾な老将軍たちは巧みに戦場から離れる対比。信仰心の塊だった貴婦人は、愛人のできた父親の伯爵から冷たく扱われ信仰の意味を失う。最大の謎はナポレオンが略奪と大火のみが残り、栄誉・富の一切ないモスクワまで何故侵攻したのか？彼の「意志」がそうさせたのか？それともモスクワ侵攻は「運命」だったのか？人間と歴史を「意志と運命」の相反する観点から展開させ記述し、本質に迫る描写には圧倒される。気になったのはトルストイが強調してる「Good of living and the love of death」の一節。「love of death」は東洋思想には有りません、これが現在のロシア・ウクライナ戦争にどんな影響を与えるのか？本書は現在も生きてます。

L'emballage de ce produit était insuffisant. C'est un très grand livre de poche. Le bord de la couverture avant est marqué et plié, comme tous les bords. Il y a une marque bleue sur les pages. Même la couverture arrière a des plis.