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War and Peace (AmazonClassics Edition)

By: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - translator, Aylmer Maude - translator
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
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In early nineteenth-century Russia, the threat of Napoleon’s invasion looms, and the lives of millions are about to be changed forever. This includes Pierre Bezúkhov, illegitimate son of an aristocrat; Andrew Bolkónski, ambitious military scion; and Natásha Rostóva, compassionate daughter of a nobleman. All of them are unprepared for what lies ahead. Alongside their fellow compatriots - a catalog of enduring literary characters - Pierre, Andrew, and Natásha will be irrevocably torn between fate and free will.

Through the bonds of love and family, and all that can break them, Tolstoy examines the effects of war on every strata of society in his masterwork of intimate - and epic - social history.

Revised edition: Previously published as War and Peace, this edition of War and Peace (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Classics Fiction Genre Fiction War & Military War Military
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worth the time and effort to listen to this classic... surprisingly politics and war hasnt changed much in last century

Good Long One

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I miss this book in my life, and I finished it 3 months ago! I kept thinking all the way through it that Tolstoy would have been so pleased that the narrating was done so well. It is a master piece! It makes you think about things very differently to, for example what really happens when young men go into battle for the very first time. how clumsy they are and how they cannot get out of the way of their fear which makes them clumsier, but then how they regale the battle with great pride forgetting most of their mistakes. It was refreshing writing and take on battle, society and families, raw and honest, but compassionate. Tolstoy writes with much experience for all these facets. I also appreciated the history lesson in the Napoleonic Wars, which was interlaced into the story. War and Peace comes with a big reputation....but I am pleased to say it carries every word of it, it is a phenomenal book, do yourself a favour and read it!

It exceeds its reputation and my expectations.

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This was not a bad book, just not a very good book. I struggled to care about any of the insipid and self obsessed characters. Tolstoy captures human nature perfectly yet the Chracters he creates are just terrible people. I ended this work wishing everyone of them would die a slow death.

The philosophical ideas presented by Tolstoy are similarly half baked. He badgers the reader with his predestination pet idea yet fails for all his words to offer a convincing reason why the choice must binary.That we must possess absolute freedom or admit that we are compelled in every action and situation.

I preserved in this work in the hope it would get better but frankly it is just the story of very boring people living lives of dull tedium. 2/5

Long and tedious read Les Miserables instead

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