A Stunning Three-Volume Boxed Set of Tolstoy s masterwork--nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American Read--War and Peace. War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-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 his family behind 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 brilliantly 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 transcend their specificity becoming some of the most moving--and human--figures in world literature. This collector s boxed set of War and Peace features the classic translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Everyman s Library pursues the highest production standards printing on acid-free cream-colored paper with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping decorative endpapers silk ribbon markers and European-style half-round spines. Everyman s Library Classics include an introduction a select bibliography and a chronology of the author s life and times.