War and Peace
Sixty-one hours. Napoleon invades, five families come apart, and Tolstoy stops twice to explain history itself.
- Listening time
- about 60 h 36 min
- Length
- 563,453 words
- First published
- 1869
- Public domain
- the author died in 1939
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 3.3 MB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- The Long Haul
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How it begins.
“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my ‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.” It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pávlovna Schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Márya Fëdorovna.
War and Peace · Leo Tolstoy · 1869
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On the same shelf: The Long Haul
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