It also features the legendary Jim Broadbent ( Moulin Rouge, Harry Potter, Longford), Gillian Anderson ( The Fall, The X-Files), Greta Scacchi ( White Mischief, Presumed Innocent) and many more. Accompanied by a stellar cast including Paul Dano ( 12 Years a Slave, Prisoners, There Will Be Blood) as the idealistic Pierre, James Norton ( Happy Valley, Belle, Grantchester) as the ambitious Prince Andrei and Lily James ( Cinderella, Downton Abbey) as the impulsive beauty Natasha. This six part adaptation has been written by Bafta-winning author Andrew Davies and will be directed by Tom Harper ( Peaky Blinders, The Scouting Book for Boys, Woman in Black: Angel of Death). Following the rise and fall of some of society’s most influential families, this truthful and poignant epic is as relevant today as ever. The lives of Pierre, Prince Andrei and Natasha are changed forever as conflict rages throughout the early nineteenth century.
Tolstoy’s beguiling masterpiece entwines love, death and determinism with Russia’s war with Napoleon and its effects on those swept up by the terror it brings. Production notes: This ebook of War and Peace was published by Global Grey in 2018.This is the official tie-in edition to the BBC adaptation of War and Peace with an exclusive introduction written by Andrew Davies.
This book has 1,787 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1869 this is a translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World set. The story centers broadly 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. It is regarded as a central work of world literature and one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements. War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, published in 1869. Her books include Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question and the Novel of Adultery (1993) and Approaches to World Literature: Teaching Tolstoys. Home Ebooks Articles Buy Collections Donate F.A.Q About Contact Search ☰Īvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats.
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