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. As an earlier reviewer noted, I also find it annoying when a reader tries to act too much. I'm enjoying War and Peace and of course I am thankful that people have donated their time. I'm disappointed that such a great book is given this treatment while Atlas Shrugged is read coherently (given the insanity of Atlas Shrugged). 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. She refuses to use contractions of any words and exaggerates syllables to the point of self parody. Chapters 15 - 17 (War and Peace) are read by a woman with the worst 'motherese' baby talk I've ever heard. It was read entirely by Christopher Hurt. I think its just 60 pages shy of War and Peace. I was just listening to Atlas Shrugged which is a Librivox recording and a very long book. The recording of the next book can be found here.įor more information or to volunteer, please visit. This is the recording of book one, which covers events in the year 1805. Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense. 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. 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. 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 (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. Librivox public domain recording of War and Peace, Book 01, by Leo Tolstoy.

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