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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - translator

Narrated by: Alan Munro

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Tolstoy's finest literary achievement.

The novel chronicles the history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. The Encyclopædia Britannica states: "It can be argued that no single English novel attains the universality of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace".

Public Domain (P)2018 Trout Lake Media

Classics

Genre Fiction

Literary Fiction

Fiction

Russia

War

Imperialism

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This is my second time through WAP after reading it in real life first. This time around affirmed my view that Tolstoy is great at setting the plot, unpacking battles, and reflecting on the philosophy of history, which I suspect influenced Heidegger. However, Tolstoy's moralising about good and bad family behaviour, the role of women, and the wonders of free masonry are pretty annoying to say the least. I prefer Pasternak's writing of female characters way more and the way he introduces masuline vulnerability. One wonders if Tolstoy ever actually met a woman, when he writes them so horrendously and condecendingly. Natasha Rostova... good grief. But all in all a great book of course and I got through it. It certainly brings home Russian suspicions towards the west. However, if I did make it through the book it was no thanks to the performance. The voice was great as such: deep and reassuring. However, the cadance of the sentences was insane. Unnatural pauses as he fumbled through the prose creates a highly distracting stilited effect. Halting mispronunciations of Russian names and strange mispronunciations of English words. Well, I kind of got used to it after 30 hours and made it to the end. P.s. Denisov (the guy with a speech impediment) is my favourite character by far and sadly under utilized by Tolstoy. Let me finish by quoting him "Ahhh you cwazy Wostovs!!!!"