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Leo Tolstoy (transl. Aylmer and Louise Maude)War and Peace, Book 01: 1805

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Librivox public domain recording of War and Peace, Book 01, by Leo Tolstoy.

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)

Note: The novel is split up in 15 books. This is the recording of book one, which covers events in the year 1805. The recording of the next book can be found here.

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Artist/Composer: Leo Tolstoy (transl. Aylmer and Louise Maude)
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; literature

Creative Commons license: Public Domain


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Chapter 06 8.6 MB
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Chapter 07 6.7 MB
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Chapter 08 7.6 MB
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Chapter 09 11.9 MB
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Chapter 10 10.7 MB
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Chapter 13 4.7 MB
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Chapter 14 8.6 MB
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Chapter 22 14.0 MB
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Chapter 23 13.9 MB
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Average Rating: 1.00 out of 5 stars

Reviewer: Nullifidian - - December 17, 2010
Subject: To thx1138_ga
Many of the novels and other full-length books at LibriVox are read as "group projects", and it is our practice not to refuse anyone who wants to read. Personally, I've found most of the group efforts I've heard to be at least acceptable, if not outstanding (like a group recording of Marcus Aurelius' _Meditations_ that I enjoyed very much).

Nevertheless, if you're unhappy with the way this book was recorded, you can either volunteer to re-record it yourself as a solo work, or you can contribute re-recorded versions of chapters that you're unhappy with. At LibriVox, we're very much about "choice of voice". All that's required are a microphone and signing up at the forum.

Also note that with newer versions, we try to standardize the volume levels. Older works may occasionally be recorded at low levels, and this is equally a problem for solo recordings (like Carl Manchester's otherwise superb recording of Bakunin's _God and the State_).

Reviewer: thx1138_ga - 1.00 out of 5 stars - September 25, 2009
Subject: War & Peace - Book 1...and probably the rest
Unfortunately, multiple people have contributed to reading this novel and there are problems with this for me. First, there is not enough attention being given by some to the recording level so some of their uploads are so low, my iPod is not able to reproduce the audio at an acceptable level. The bigger issue is that some of these well meaning folks have heavy accents, or pause too much, or try acting a bit too much, and I'm having trouble concentrating on the content. I'm sure this format would work fine if any one of these people would read the whole Novel, talented as they all are, but because you have so many different readers (one for EACH CHAPTER before I had to give it up) there's something missing. Sorry for the bad review, but this was my experience. I had to stop near the end of the first book. I must say that my other Librivox/Archive.org audio books have been outstanding.


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