After receiving this book I realized that it's a tall order to try to fit "war and peace" into a single volume. Both times I read this novel in the past, it was printed as a two volume edition, in a decent font. I think this is important for a book like this. Also, although this book is near new, the pages are already turning tan, tanner than my 1950's vintage Soviet printed "War and Peace" edition. The paper is also thin and hard to leaf through. Then again, you get what you paid for and I guess I can't complain for having spent under $20.

As to the translation, I would rate it very well (better than other English translation of this work) except that I hardly find a reason to translate into English the passages spoken in French.