War and Peace, Book 01: 1805


Leído por LibriVox Volunteers

(4.4 estrellas; 413 reseñas)

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 in 15 books. This is the recording of book one, which covers the events in the year 1805. (5 hr 31 min)

Capítulos

Chapter 01 14:49 Leído por Rainer
Chapter 02 9:13 Leído por Stewart Wills
Chapter 03 9:49 Leído por Nomenphile
Chapter 04 9:00 Leído por Nomenphile
Chapter 05 13:00 Leído por Nomenphile
Chapter 06 9:25 Leído por Stewart Wills
Chapter 07 7:21 Leído por Stewart Wills
Chapter 08 8:17 Leído por David Barnes
Chapter 09 12:56 Leído por Richard Grove
Chapter 10 11:41 Leído por Patricia Oakley
Chapter 11 6:13 Leído por Patricia Oakley
Chapter 12 8:26 Leído por Chip
Chapter 13 5:08 Leído por Chip
Chapter 14 9:24 Leído por Chip
Chapter 15 10:34 Leído por Kristin LeMoine
Chapter 16 13:11 Leído por Kristin LeMoine
Chapter 17 5:25 Leído por Kristin LeMoine
Chapter 18 15:17 Leído por JemmaBlythe
Chapter 19 7:07 Leído por Alex Foster
Chapter 20 12:19 Leído por Alex Foster
Chapter 21 23:21 Leído por miette
Chapter 22 15:20 Leído por miette
Chapter 23 15:12 Leído por Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Chapter 24 15:21 Leído por Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Chapter 25 24:42 Leído por Ezwa
Chapter 26 11:31 Leído por Alex Foster
Chapter 27 9:08 Leído por Kristen McQuillin
Chapter 28 18:29 Leído por Kristen McQuillin

Reseñas

Epic!


(5 estrellas)

This book is so epic and so worth listening too! It is layered, it is heartfelt, it is beautiful, it is cold and analytic, and it is the most riveting writing about battle that I have read and there are many good books on the topic. As for the people who complain about the readers, I doubt many of them made it past the first book. Once you've listened for a while the readers becomes familiar and I welcomed them like old friends. There were very few that were difficult to listen to and only two or three chapters in the whole 17 book recording that were unlistenable. This is such every rewarding read. I highly recommend it! Many thanks to all the readers for the hours and hours of hard work you put in to make this possible!

Group projects


Goodness. I can't imagine reading War and Peace as a solo project. The general rule of thumb is that it takes 3-4 hours work to produce one hour of recorded audio, depending on the complexity of the voicing and the difficulty of the text you are reading. Without group readings, projects like this would never get off the ground. In my view, it is better to have a group recording with all its faults and foibles than no recording at all.

war and peace, the entire novel


(3 estrellas)

This is a wonderful collaboration of volunteers that read this book, with the exception of one reader. If someone would re-read her parts it would simply be amazing! If I hadn't had really wanted to finish the book I couldn't have made it. as it is I honestly can't recommend someone listening. one thing you should do before deciding to listen is go find a chapter or two read by Eva and if you can handle it go for it! She does get a little better towards the end. there are some awesome readers involved as well! If you listen I wish you luck!

To ListeninginChicago


(4 estrellas)

I was just listening to Atlas Shrugged which is a Librivox recording and a very long book. I think its just 60 pages shy of War and Peace. It was read entirely by Christopher Hurt. Chapters 15 - 17 (War and Peace) are read by a woman with the worst "motherese" baby talk I've ever heard. She refuses to use contractions of any words and exaggerates syllables to the point of self parody. The following reader (chapter 18) is a British woman who sounds like she is on a life support system slurring words as she clings to dear life. I'm disappointed that such a great book is given this treatment while Atlas Shrugged is read coherently (given the insanity of Atlas Shrugged). I'm enjoying War and Peace and of course I am thankful that people have donated their time. As an earlier reviewer noted, I also find it annoying when a reader tries to act too much. Maybe Librivox has a system of grading readers so they receive feedback? I am at chapter 18 in the first book and will most likely listen to the whole book, but I wish there was one reader per book at least or just one reader for the whole work. To further "look the gift horse in the mouth" I wish IA would arrange these books in groups instead of having to go searching for the books one by one. I just bought a condenser mic and will be reading for Librivox soon, if they accept me. I think its a wonderful group and have enjoyed what I have listened to so far.

War & Peace - Book 1...and probably the rest


(1 estrella)

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.

I am very sorry to give this review.


(1 estrella)

I have always hoped to read this book, for it has gotten wonderful reviews, however, I just couldn't get past the narrator's voice. It is rather difficult to comprehend and his accent is also very distracting.


(4 estrellas)

War and Peace certainly lives up to it's reputation as one of the most magnificent stories written. However, I strongly urge all narrators to limit their reading to recordings in their native/fluent languages!


(5 estrellas)

Wonderful literature! Read well. Love the different accents.