1.1.161

About this episode

This episode features a reading of Sentence 161 from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

Part 1, Chapter 1, Sentence 161. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Russian: Война и мир, Лев Николаевич Толстой), translated by Constance Garnett in 1930, read usually by Tod Beardsley, who started in 2026. This is a daily podcast reading Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace one sentence at a time, using the public-domain Constance Garnett translation. This episode was read by Tod Beardsley. War and Peace was first published as a complete work in 1869, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest works...

People in this episode

Host: Tod Beardsley

Topics covered

• literature
• translation
• Russian literature
• War and Peace
• daily reading

Keywords

• War and Peace
• Leo Tolstoy
• Constance Garnett
• daily podcast
• sentence reading

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Books & works: War and Peace

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