War and Peace, Book 06: 1808-1810
Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Leo Tolstoy
(4,234 Sterne; 139 Bewertungen)
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) (4 hr 2 min)
Chapters
Bewertungen
perfect except for the end
tittletumtum
(2,5 Sterne)
This reading was beautiful, absolutely loved it, but there were a couple issues. One, there was a huge pause in the middle that I mistook for the end of the book, and I almost missed the last few chapters because of it. Second, the final reader for the last chapter was so incomprehensible that I had to listen three times just to understand it.
Chapter 18
null
(4,5 Sterne)
Just loved the accent(Russian itself if am not wrong. The narrator has put the words quite eloquently. She knows where to put emphesis and where and how much the pauses should be. However due to the accent itself I was ocassiobnaly confused at certain words but it didn't mattered to me much. Thank you for your invaluable work :)
Eva Cass
(5 Sterne)
5 stars for the book but unfortunately I find a couple of the readers difficult to understand & have to listen intently. Having said that thanks to the volunteers & Librivox for the opportunity to audible books.
LFrock
(2,5 Sterne)
I was doing okay until the last half of the book was so hard to understand the readers. I couldn't understand a single word of the final chapter
(0,5 Sterne)
Jain (chapter (chapter 26)is an impossible narrator. You cannot understand what he is saying which means a total blank in his part of the story.
Celluka
(2 Sterne)
uneven narration of the book, with some specially hard to understand and listen to.
(5 Sterne)
Chapter 19 is missing a paragraph.