War and Peace, Book 17: Second Epilogue: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

War and Peace, Book 17: Second Epilogue, credited to Leo Tolstoy, 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 17, second epilogue, by Leo Tolstoy. 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 up in 15 books and two epilogues. This is the recording of the second epilogue, which is the last volume of the novel. The recording of the first epilogue can be found here. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: War and Peace, Book 17: Second Epilogue
• Author credits: Leo Tolstoy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 1:53:56

Track guide

1. Chapter 01 — 10:59
2. Chapter 02 — 10:03
3. Chapter 03 — 5:18
4. Chapter 04 — 18:14
5. Chapter 05 — 7:05
6. Chapter 06 — 8:39
7. Chapter 07 — 7:50
8. Chapter 08 — 10:36
9. Chapter 09 — 12:44
10. Chapter 10 — 12:16
11. Chapter 11 — 3:56
12. Chapter 12 — 6:23

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