War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy show

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Summary: Book 01: 1805, 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. Note: The novel is split up in 17 books. This is the recording of book one, which covers events in the year 1805.

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 Chapter 01 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 14:49

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 Chapter 02 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 09:13

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 Chapter 03 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 09:49

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 Chapter 04 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 09:00

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 Chapter 05 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 13:00

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 Chapter 06 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 09:25

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 Chapter 07 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 07:21

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 Chapter 08 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 08:17

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 Chapter 09 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 12:56

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 Chapter 10 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 11:41

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 Chapter 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 06:13

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 Chapter 12 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 08:26

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 Chapter 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 05:08

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 Chapter 14 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 09:24

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 Chapter 15 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:34

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