About this episode
This episode features a reading of the first sentence of Part 1, Chapter 2 from Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Part 1, Chapter 2, Sentence 1. 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 o...
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Host: Tod Beardsley
Topics covered
- literature
- reading
- Tolstoy
- War and Peace
- translation
- history
Keywords
- War and Peace
- Leo Tolstoy
- Constance Garnett
- reading
- literature
- history
- daily podcast
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