Summary: War and Peace 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)
This novel is presented in 15 volumes. If you prefer to stream individual chapters within each volume from the computer (rather than downloading to Mp3) click on the Librivox page for the volume you are listening to, and you will find the chapter links there.
Book 1
Running time: 5 hours, 32 minutes
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Book 2
Running time: 4 hours, 32 minutes
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Book 3
Running time: 5 hours, 3 minutes
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Book 4
Running time: 3 hours, 2 minutes
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Book 5
Running time: 3 hours, 53 minutes
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Book 6
Running time: 4 hours, 2 minutes
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Book 7
Running time: 2 hours, 38 minutes
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Book 8
Running time: 3 hours, 57 minutes
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Book 9
Running time: 4 hours, 19 minutes
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Book 10
Running time: 7 hours, 30 minutes
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Book 11
Running time: 6 hours, 10 minutes
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Book 12
Running time: 2 hours, 42 minutes
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Book 13
Running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
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Book 14
Running time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
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Book 15 This book has not been recorded yet, but it is in production. We will post the links here when it is finished. In the meantime, you can listen to the unedited recording of this book here, by clicking on the word Listen beside each chapter.
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