War and Peace, Book 04: 1806: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

War and Peace, Book 04: 1806, credited to Leo Tolstoy (transl. Aylmer and Louise Maude), is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox public domain recording of War and Peace, Book 04, by Leo Tolstoy. 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. 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 up in 15 books. This is the recording of book four, which covers events in the year 1806. The recording of the next book can be found here. The recording of book three can be found here. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: War and Peace, Book 04: 1806
• Author credits: Leo Tolstoy (transl. Aylmer and Louise Maude)
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 3:02:01

Track guide

1. Chapter 01 — 21:01
2. Chapter 02 — 15:26
3. Chapter 03 — 13:27
4. Chapter 04 — 12:02
5. Chapter 05 — 7:36
6. Chapter 06 — 15:06
7. Chapter 07 — 10:30
8. Chapter 08 — 13:12
9. Chapter 09 — 7:42
10. Chapter 10 — 11:04
11. Chapter 11 — 8:00
12. Chapter 12 — 10:35
13. Chapter 13 — 10:18
14. Chapter 14 — 8:54
15. Chapter 15 — 8:51
16. Chapter 16 — 8:23

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