War and Peace, Book 10: 1812


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(4.4 stars; 172 reviews)

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) (7 hr 29 min)

Chapitres

Chapter 01 13:50 Lu par Labyrinth Composer
Chapter 02 15:22 Lu par Andy Yu
Chapter 03 7:08 Lu par David Anton
Chapter 04 30:49 Lu par Andy Yu
Chapter 05 16:14 Lu par Anna Simon
Chapter 06 9:39 Lu par fourteatoo
Chapter 07 11:09 Lu par eva
Chapter 08 28:12 Lu par eva
Chapter 09 12:15 Lu par Marcy Fraser
Chapter 10 16:48 Lu par eva
Chapter 11 6:16 Lu par fourteatoo
Chapter 12 5:17 Lu par fourteatoo
Chapter 13 9:35 Lu par fourteatoo
Chapter 14 10:12 Lu par fourteatoo
Chapter 15 18:07 Lu par Andy Yu
Chapter 16 8:00 Lu par fourteatoo
Chapter 17 9:57 Lu par fourteatoo
Chapter 18 11:40 Lu par fourteatoo
Chapter 19 12:55 Lu par fourteatoo
Chapter 20 8:39 Lu par fourteatoo
Chapter 21 10:55 Lu par Marcy Fraser
Chapter 22 11:48 Lu par eva
Chapter 23 4:28 Lu par Marcy Fraser
Chapter 24 9:47 Lu par eva
Chapter 25 20:26 Lu par WangHaojie
Chapter 26 8:53 Lu par Anna Simon
Chapter 27 9:48 Lu par Ernst Pattynama
Chapter 28 6:28 Lu par James Slater
Chapter 29 6:23 Lu par Anna Simon
Chapter 30 10:04 Lu par eva
Chapter 31 16:12 Lu par Anna Simon
Chapter 32 4:08 Lu par Anna Simon
Chapter 33 9:24 Lu par Ernst Pattynama
Chapter 34 10:29 Lu par Philippa Brodie
Chapter 35 9:16 Lu par Philippa Brodie
Chapter 36 16:24 Lu par eva
Chapter 37 8:12 Lu par David Anton
Chapter 38 8:08 Lu par Anna Simon
Chapter 39 6:38 Lu par Anna Simon

Critiques


(2 stars)

With a few exceptions the readers were terrible.

chapter 25 is very difficult to understand.


(4.5 stars)

wide range of narration skills


(2 stars)

I appreciate all the readers. I admit that I may be more distracted by accents, pauses, and indistinct pronunciation than other listeners. I am following along in the Maude translation. I listened to the first 8 books in the solo reading by Maryann of the dole translation, which was exceptional. since she stopped there, I moved to the collaborative readings of book 9, which were also great. I could only listen to 8 of the 39 chapters of this, book 10, reading all the other chapters without audio. I found Ernst, Phipippa, James and marcy ranging from good to excellent. the other narrators made the reading, for me, more difficult than just reading without narration.


(2 stars)

Five readers alternate through the chapters, and they have different accents. One sounds Russian, one Asian, one from Nova Scotia, and two from United States. All are understandable, but names are pronounced differently, sometimes making it difficult to follow the story.


(3 stars)

some of the readers have accents that are really hard to understand

Astonishing


(5 stars)

Great readers. The Battles of Smolensk and of Borodino


(3 stars)

Many of the readers are hard to understand

we love eva harnik


(5 stars)

great voice. comprehensible