War and Peace, Book 02: 1805


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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


(5 stars)

Aa wonderful story well read for the most part

Appreciate all the readers' efforts; thank you


(3 stars)

Very nice


(5 stars)

vnice workery good recording

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(5 stars)

The recordings are excellent. The readers have done an awesome job add emotion as needed.


(2 stars)

great book. too many readers. some of them not so skillful