So why is this old literary classic suddenly sitting near the top of bestseller lists, surpassing swifter, lighter, more modern American novels? Probably because War and Peace has been freshly translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the husband and wife team who gained national prominence in 2004 when Oprah Winfrey selected their translation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for her immensely popular book club program.
This story of the French invasion of Russia in 1812 was first published in 1869 in Russian, no less. At more than 1,200 pages and almost exactly four pounds, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is the hefty tome against which all other hefty tomes are weighed and measured.
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