War and Peace, Book 11: 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) (6 hr 9 min)
Chapters
Chapter 01 | 10:44 | Read by Ernst Pattynama |
Chapter 02 | 9:21 | Read by Ernst Pattynama |
Chapter 03 | 6:27 | Read by JohnWKEllis |
Chapter 04 | 11:00 | Read by Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit |
Chapter 05 | 8:56 | Read by eva |
Chapter 06 | 8:17 | Read by Philippa Brodie |
Chapter 07 | 9:16 | Read by Philippa Brodie |
Chapter 08 | 4:55 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 09 | 7:04 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 10 | 11:36 | Read by eva |
Chapter 11 | 5:39 | Read by Labyrinth Composer |
Chapter 12 | 11:59 | Read by Paul McCartan |
Chapter 13 | 10:49 | Read by eva |
Chapter 14 | 9:07 | Read by eva |
Chapter 15 | 11:00 | Read by eva |
Chapter 16 | 14:59 | Read by eva |
Chapter 17 | 15:34 | Read by eva |
Chapter 18 | 8:41 | Read by WangHaojie |
Chapter 19 | 11:39 | Read by WangHaojie |
Chapter 20 | 7:38 | Read by HarryInk |
Chapter 21 | 7:20 | Read by HarryInk |
Chapter 22 | 6:50 | Read by HarryInk |
Chapter 23 | 11:00 | Read by HarryInk |
Chapter 24 | 11:52 | Read by Paul McCartan |
Chapter 25 | 26:42 | Read by Larissa Little |
Chapter 26 | 18:21 | Read by eva |
Chapter 27 | 8:39 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 28 | 6:26 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 29 | 21:29 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 30 | 3:55 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 31 | 11:46 | Read by David Anton |
Chapter 32 | 15:40 | Read by David Anton |
Chapter 33 | 14:48 | Read by Philippa Brodie |
Chapter 34 | 10:29 | Read by Philippa Brodie |
Reviews
ok
ally
chp 18 and 19 please please change the reader !!! and chp 21 doesn't exist
A LibriVox Listener
Ch 18+19 were unlistenable. Otherwise great. Thanks!
Thilina Samarasooriya
All other volunteer readers do a decent job, but this "WangHaojie" fellow sounds atrocious! He SHOUTS into the microphone, mispronounces, and he has not even bothered to edit his recording! Numerous phrases he has stumbled over repeatedly, the man doesn't have the decency to edit them out! Simply leaves all of them right there!! Intolerable! Please make sure that you reject all such sub-standard contributions! I strongly recommend leaving him out altogether. Please do not engage his services to narrate any more books. Thank you.
poor reading
Ciju
Very poor reading by one of the readers especially chapter 18, 19.. I think his name was WangHaojie and quoted as Jef.
IVANO RUGGERI
Wang haji is just appalling. Does anyone vet these narrators? Best to skip his chapters as they are totally unintelligible.
A LibriVox Listener
Wang haojii cannot read or speak English and some moron let him make two chapters unintelligible
cd
JohnWKEllis is a really bad narrator. Please vet these readers better, otherwise manageable.
David Colqui
Chapters 18-19 need to be redone. I could hardly understand it.