War and Peace: 3-Volume Boxed Set; Introduction by R. F. Christian

I will not write a review for War and Peace aside from saying it's an absolute classic that is a relevant today as I am sure it was upon release. The treatment received by Everymans Library is absolutely stunning. The binding is solid as a rock and I have no doubt these books will hold up for many many reads. The only caution I can give is the fact there is a lot of French thrown into the text and there is no glossary in the book to translate it. An easy solution for this is to either look up the translations online, or do as I am doing and purchase the four dollar Wordsworth Maude translation and use their glossary at the back to help with translation. Although the lack of translations can be somewhat annoying, I simply must give this set a 5 star review still because the quality exceeds anything that should be available at this low price point. If you love War and Peace like I do, make sure you get this set because if you don't and it's not available one day I know you will be kicking yourself. NOTE: The first image I posted is not of this product but the cheaper Wordsworth edition which I recommend getting as well to aid you with French translations... Also it's handy to have a 4 dollar copy of the book to take with outside the house to ensure you can keep these more expensive copies in pristine condition at home.

It's technically perfect! The cardboard box isn't as hard as I thought, but it's good. The content itself doesn't need comments.

The splitting up of the book into 3 volumes makes it easier to handle, and often single volume versions compress the text making it harder to read comfortably. The books themselves were in good condition, but the slipcase was a bit bashed, but it was secondhand so acceptable.

I first came across this book on Amazon when my brother wanted to purchase a book (decline and fall of the roman empire), after having purchased that book, War and Peace was recommended to me, I quickly read the cover and decided to purchase it just a few days later. The book remained on my shelf for about 3 months until one day I was sitting bored at home and decided to start reading books. I picked up War and Peace after skimming through a couple of my books and in just one day I read about 30 to 40 pages, and after two weeks I had finished the entire book. There are two things that kept me reading this book; the first thing that kept me reading this book was the philosophy. The philosophical part of the book had me lost in the pages to the point that I wasn't even aware of my own life and was just focused on the words written in the pages, and afterwards reflecting on what I had just read was soul quenching. The Philosophy within the book was so strange, it was as if I knew what Tolstoy was trying to point out, but it just needed to be written down so that I could comprehend it, if that makes sense. Second were the characters within the book, Prince Andei, Pierre, Dolokhov and many others. In the beginning, not being familiar with the characters, I was a patient observer, then after continuing my reading and seeing the characters develop and go through their struggles in life allowed me to sympathize with them despite being disapproving of them at first, and although their lives were set in the late 18th and early 19th century, I related to them in every way because their struggles were no different from our very own despite the times, like when Pierre (SPOILERS START HERE) was somewhat pressured to marry Helene and then later finding her ungrateful, or when Dolokhov after being shot despite being the kind of person he was felt love for his sister and mother and towards his friends, and especially Prince Andrei who so vehemently wanted to carry out revenge against Anatole for what he did to him but then sympathizing with him when he saw his leg cut off. (SPOILERS OVER). Now who is looking forward to reading this book, don't spoil it for yourself if you haven't already and read it from there, believe me each moment will be like wondering what will happen next.

The review is for the quality of the cover and the print. The book itself is a slow read, 3 chapters in and they still haven't left the drawing room.