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War & Peace — Book XIV 


Translated by Louise Shanks Maude and Aylmer Maude 


War and Peace (Russian: BoñHa n mnp, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: 
BouHa n mnp», 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) 


Read by: Ernst Pattynama, Laurie Anne Walden, Zloot, 
Sunny Shields, Geoff Dugwyler, WestWestest, Cate 
Lib iV Mackenzie, Anna Simon. 
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Dedicated Proof-Listener: Buechermaus 


Cover design by: J.S. Kenney. 
Total running time: 2:08:29 


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