War and Peace, Book 12: 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) (2 hr 41 min)
Chapters
Chapter 01 | 8:05 | Read by kyleti |
Chapter 02 | 5:52 | Read by M.White |
Chapter 03 | 6:04 | Read by M.White |
Chapter 04 | 11:35 | Read by M.White |
Chapter 05 | 8:24 | Read by Jessica Louise |
Chapter 06 | 9:15 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 07 | 9:57 | Read by fourteatoo |
Chapter 08 | 8:33 | Read by hebaio |
Chapter 09 | 5:20 | Read by Laurie Anne Walden |
Chapter 10 | 9:23 | Read by Laurie Anne Walden |
Chapter 11 | 9:01 | Read by Barry Eads |
Chapter 12 | 13:07 | Read by Barry Eads |
Chapter 13 | 6:15 | Read by hebaio |
Chapter 14 | 17:45 | Read by eva |
Chapter 15 | 13:49 | Read by eva |
Chapter 16 | 19:17 | Read by eva |
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Eva from Punta Gorda Florida is an excellent reader.
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The ending of this section is so beautiful.
kathleenonaustin
Several terrific readers mixed with those more challenged
Thilina Samarasooriya
All chapters narrated reasonably well. Thank you!