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War and Peace: Volume I, Volume II
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War and Peace: Volume I, Volume II Mp3 cd - 2016

by Leo Tolstoy; Aylmer Maude (Translator); Louise Maude (Translator)

About this book

War and Peace, a Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy, is considered one of the world's greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina (1873–7), as his finest literary achievement. Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. 

First titled '1805' the first installment was published in the January 1865 edition of Russkiy Vestnik. It ran in serial form for 2 years before Tolstoy reworked much of the manuscript before publishing it in 1869 as War and Peace.

From the publisher

Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018

WAR & PEACE, Volume I
The Neville Jason performance of Tolstoy's War & Peace was selected as a Top 12 Fiction title for Best Audiobooks of 2007 by AudioFile Magazine. War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869. In addition it is, famously, one of the longest books in Western literature and therefore a remarkable challenge for any reader. Translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude.

WAR & PEACE, Volume II
War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869. Neville Jason read the abridged version of War and Peace and proved his marathon powers with his outstanding performance of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. These alone make him the ideal person to essay Tolstoy's epic. The recording runs some seventy hours, and has been divided into two volumes. Translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude.

First Edition Identification

-First American edition published in 6 volumes, translated by Clara Bell, in 1886, New York. Decorated in Brown Cloth. 

Details

  • Title War and Peace: Volume I, Volume II
  • Author Leo Tolstoy; Aylmer Maude (Translator); Louise Maude (Translator)
  • Binding MP3 CD
  • Edition MP3 UNA
  • Volumes 5
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Naxos Audiobooks on Brilliance Audio
  • Date 2016-04
  • Abridged Yes
  • ISBN 9781522636281 / 1522636285
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.1 in (19.05 x 13.46 x 2.79 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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