This is an auction for WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy.

The translator is not identified.

From Wikipedia:

"WAR AND PEACE is a long novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being ANNA KARENINA) as well as one of the world's greatest novels. WAR AND PEACE offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, marriage, age, and death. While today it is considered a novel, it broke so many novelistic conventions that many critics of Tolstoy's time did not consider it as such."

Amazon.com review:

"WAR AND PEACE centres on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves behind his family to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman, who intrigues both men. As Napoleon's army invades, Tolstoy follows characters from diverse backgrounds - peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers - as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters become some of the most moving - and human - figures in world literature."

Many more very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Three Heron Books hardbacks.

Undated, but about 1967.

1261 pages in the three volumes.

Good condition.

The cost of shipping is $6.95 (tracked mail). If you are on rural delivery and want tracked mail, the shipping cost will be $9.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.