War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)From sophisticated Moscow soirees to breathless troika rides through the snow, from the bloody front line at Austerlitz to a wifes death in childbirth, Tolstoy conjures a broad panorama of rich, messy, beautiful and debased human life. We follow the fates of open hearted, impulsive Pierre Bezukhov, his melancholy friend Prince Andrei and the enchanting Natasha Rostov, as history and fiction are combined in one of the wisest and most enthralling novels

the thirty-year-old impoverished gentleman Chulkaturin decides to write a diary looking back on his short life

keep her family together

daily applicable wisdom of Ayurveda can help lead you out of the doctor's surgery and on a journey towards self-healing

including astronomy

this time around

A philanderer

the most fatalities since 1996

An easy-to-use photographic guide to identifying and using the garden flowers of India

'Two of Dickens' hilarious early stories from Sketches by Boz: 'The Great Winglebury Duel' and 'Bloomsbury Christening'

His children - Sin and Death - build a bridge between Hell and Earth

The studies and essays and in this collection represent some of the best of contemporary scholarship in Mahayana Buddhist studies and deal with the theory and practice of Mahayana meditation

7 SUMMERS AGO: They get far too drunk and narrowly avoid getting matching tattoos in New Orleans