War and Peace, Book 02: 1805
Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels.
War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, age and marriage. While today it is considered a novel, it broke so many novelistic conventions of its day that many critics of Tolstoy's time did not consider it as such. Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense. (Summary by Wikipedia)
Note: The novel is split up in 15 books. This is the recording of book two, which covers events in the year 1805. The recording of the next book can be found here. The recording of book one can be found here.
(4 hr 31 min)
Chapters
Chapter 01 | 12:50 | Read by Gesine |
Chapter 02 | 19:28 | Read by Jessica AC Snyder |
Chapter 03 | 16:41 | Read by Susan Denney |
Chapter 04 | 17:05 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 05 | 9:02 | Read by Jessica AC Snyder |
Chapter 06 | 5:31 | Read by Kirsten Ferreri |
Chapter 07 | 14:24 | Read by eva |
Chapter 08 | 25:59 | Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014) |
Chapter 09 | 13:01 | Read by Gesine |
Chapter 10 | 13:17 | Read by Cori Samuel |
Chapter 11 | 5:49 | Read by Cori Samuel |
Chapter 12 | 12:26 | Read by Cori Samuel |
Chapter 13 | 12:53 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 14 | 6:48 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 15 | 11:48 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 16 | 5:41 | Read by QDreams |
Chapter 17 | 14:30 | Read by spiritualbeing |
Chapter 18 | 12:02 | Read by Joan Freeman |
Chapter 19 | 7:06 | Read by Roger Melin |
Chapter 20 | 14:33 | Read by Roger Melin |
Chapter 21 | 20:33 | Read by Roger Melin |
Reviews
he an hesse
Aa wonderful story well read for the most part
Appreciate all the readers' efforts; thank you
MP
Very nice
Zhong
vnice workery good recording
War and Peace
GeorgieGirl
The recordings are excellent. The readers have done an awesome job add emotion as needed.
Mitchell Ahrens
great book. too many readers. some of them not so skillful