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War And Peace

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War And Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Orlando Figes, Anthony Briggs - translator
Narrated by: Sam Woolf, Michael Fox, Olivia Darnley, Terence Wilton, Chloe Pirrie
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Chloe Pirrie, Sam Woolf, Michael Fox, Olivia Darnley and Terence Wilton.

At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace (1868-9), Tolstoy entwines grand themes - conflict and love, birth and death, free will and fate - with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur.

Translator Copyright © Anthony Briggs 2005 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

 Classics Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Political World Literature Thought-Provoking

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Even better to do half reading and half listening on here I’d say. Highly recommend this one.

It’s an achievement to read this one!

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loved it. a glorious mix of genres; novel, history and philosophical treatise. must have been huge influence on Marx and Engles

epic and unexpected

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As the title says, great until the narrator changed, not sure why anyone would think that was a good idea.

I was enjoying it

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It's a soap opera really, a very good one. So many different stories aside from the main narrative. found the war bits sometimes a bit too much for my interest in military history, but happy to listen and pick up some insight along the way. Great philosophical ideas all through the book. Different narrators throughout made it sometimes tricky to get into again. One was not edited completely as lines were repeated when he felt it was wrong, but no one had edited out the first try. The last narrator, the epilogue was rather shouty, heart my ears, made the writting rather preachy and arrogant, maybe it was anyway, but the reader made it unlistenable.

Long, but great

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I wish I could give it 6 stars- the only book I've ever decided to listen to again immediately after finishing.

a legendary classic, unsurprisingly

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