War and Peace, Book 05: 1806-1807
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) (3 hr 52 min)
Chapters
Chapter 01 | 9:51 | Read by Roger Melin |
Chapter 02 | 16:48 | Read by Roger Melin |
Chapter 03 | 19:42 | Read by Roger Melin |
Chapter 04 | 9:20 | Read by RobbieRogers |
Chapter 05 | 4:13 | Read by RobbieRogers |
Chapter 06 | 10:10 | Read by RobbieRogers |
Chapter 07 | 4:24 | Read by DanWebster |
Chapter 08 | 8:53 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 09 | 18:17 | Read by eva |
Chapter 10 | 11:44 | Read by Beecher |
Chapter 11 | 17:06 | Read by Barny Shergold |
Chapter 12 | 9:44 | Read by Great Plains |
Chapter 13 | 9:08 | Read by RobbieRogers |
Chapter 14 | 5:18 | Read by RobbieRogers |
Chapter 15 | 10:51 | Read by Roger Melin |
Chapter 16 | 13:33 | Read by Roger Melin |
Chapter 17 | 9:48 | Read by Roger Melin |
Chapter 18 | 6:53 | Read by JemmaBlythe |
Chapter 19 | 12:34 | Read by eva |
Chapter 20 | 11:46 | Read by eva |
Chapter 21 | 10:50 | Read by RobbieRogers |
Chapter 22 | 1:28 | Read by Rainer |
Reviews
great book and one unsatisfactory reader
Paul
Most of the readers are either excellent or at least satisfactory. BUT not Rita H. Her German accent is so heavy that it is almost impossible to follow the text let alone the story.
GeorgieGirl
Clearly outstanding the way that Libervox has put together the readers. They have chosen the right expressions for the work
Red
I enjoy all the narrators, the different accents especially.
Dallas Freeman II
Eva Harnick is hard to understand