War and Peace, Book 10: 1812
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) (7 hr 29 min)
Chapters
Chapter 01 | 13:50 | Read by Labyrinth Composer |
Chapter 02 | 15:22 | Read by Andy Yu |
Chapter 03 | 7:08 | Read by David Anton |
Chapter 04 | 30:49 | Read by Andy Yu |
Chapter 05 | 16:14 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 06 | 9:39 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 07 | 11:09 | Read by eva |
Chapter 08 | 28:12 | Read by eva |
Chapter 09 | 12:15 | Read by Marcy Fraser |
Chapter 10 | 16:48 | Read by eva |
Chapter 11 | 6:16 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 12 | 5:17 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 13 | 9:35 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 14 | 10:12 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 15 | 18:07 | Read by Andy Yu |
Chapter 16 | 8:00 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 17 | 9:57 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 18 | 11:40 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 19 | 12:55 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 20 | 8:39 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 21 | 10:55 | Read by Marcy Fraser |
Chapter 22 | 11:48 | Read by eva |
Chapter 23 | 4:28 | Read by Marcy Fraser |
Chapter 24 | 9:47 | Read by eva |
Chapter 25 | 20:26 | Read by WangHaojie |
Chapter 26 | 8:53 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 27 | 9:48 | Read by Ernst Pattynama |
Chapter 28 | 6:28 | Read by James Slater |
Chapter 29 | 6:23 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 30 | 10:04 | Read by eva |
Chapter 31 | 16:12 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 32 | 4:08 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 33 | 9:24 | Read by Ernst Pattynama |
Chapter 34 | 10:29 | Read by Philippa Brodie |
Chapter 35 | 9:16 | Read by Philippa Brodie |
Chapter 36 | 16:24 | Read by eva |
Chapter 37 | 8:12 | Read by David Anton |
Chapter 38 | 8:08 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 39 | 6:38 | Read by Anna Simon |
Reviews
LFrock
With a few exceptions the readers were terrible.
chapter 25 is very difficult to understand.
A LibriVox Listener
wide range of narration skills
Mark Schneider
I appreciate all the readers. I admit that I may be more distracted by accents, pauses, and indistinct pronunciation than other listeners. I am following along in the Maude translation. I listened to the first 8 books in the solo reading by Maryann of the dole translation, which was exceptional. since she stopped there, I moved to the collaborative readings of book 9, which were also great. I could only listen to 8 of the 39 chapters of this, book 10, reading all the other chapters without audio. I found Ernst, Phipippa, James and marcy ranging from good to excellent. the other narrators made the reading, for me, more difficult than just reading without narration.
A LibriVox Listener
Five readers alternate through the chapters, and they have different accents. One sounds Russian, one Asian, one from Nova Scotia, and two from United States. All are understandable, but names are pronounced differently, sometimes making it difficult to follow the story.
David Colqui
some of the readers have accents that are really hard to understand
Astonishing
A LibriVox Listener
Great readers. The Battles of Smolensk and of Borodino
Theo
Many of the readers are hard to understand
we love eva harnik
A LibriVox Listener
great voice. comprehensible