The work chronicles the Napoleonic era within Russia, notably detailing the French invasion of Russia and its aftermath. It is regarded as Tolstoy's finest literary achievement and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature. First published serially beginning in 1865, the work was rewritten and published in its entirety in 1869. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the work mixes fictional narrative with chapters discussing history and philosophy. The recording of book three can be found here.įor more information or to volunteer, please visit and Peace is a literary work by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The recording of the next book can be found here. This is the recording of book four, which covers events in the year 1806. Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense. 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. 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. 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 (Russian: ²ÞÙÝÐ Ø ÜØà, Voyna i mir in original orthography: ²ÞÙÝÐ Ø ÜØàê, 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. Librivox public domain recording of War and Peace, Book 04, by Leo Tolstoy.
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