War and Peace, Book 14: 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 8 min)
Chapters
Chapter 01 | 8:59 | Read by Ernst Pattynama |
Chapter 02 | 5:40 | Read by Laurie Anne Walden |
Chapter 03 | 6:49 | Read by Zloot |
Chapter 04 | 9:03 | Read by Sunny Shields |
Chapter 05 | 8:19 | Read by Geoff Dugwyler |
Chapter 06 | 5:24 | Read by Geoff Dugwyler |
Chapter 07 | 8:34 | Read by Geoff Dugwyler |
Chapter 08 | 4:59 | Read by WestWestest |
Chapter 09 | 6:32 | Read by WestWestest |
Chapter 10 | 9:04 | Read by WestWestest |
Chapter 11 | 6:52 | Read by Cate Mackenzie |
Chapter 12 | 7:35 | Read by Cate Mackenzie |
Chapter 13 | 7:43 | Read by Cate Mackenzie |
Chapter 14 | 3:37 | Read by Cate Mackenzie |
Chapter 15 | 6:25 | Read by Laurie Anne Walden |
Chapter 16 | 4:04 | Read by Laurie Anne Walden |
Chapter 17 | 4:19 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 18 | 4:43 | Read by Anna Simon |
Chapter 19 | 9:48 | Read by Cate Mackenzie |
Reviews
Chris Connell
What can I say? I don’t care for Tolstoy, but I still loved War and Peace!
Theo
So far best group of readers in War and peace
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uflawuerl
Kudos to the lady from Ponte Vedra, Florida.
Amelia Withington
Great so far, ready for book 15!