About this episode

This episode features a reading of Part 1, Chapter 2, Sentence 33 from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, read by River Wren.

Part 1, Chapter 2, Sentence 33. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Russian: Война и мир, Лев Николаевич Толстой), translated by Constance Garnett in 1930, read usually, but not today, 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 River Wren. Special thanks to River Wren for contributing their voice to this project. War and Peace was first pu...

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Guest: River Wren

Topics covered

• literature
• reading
• translation
• War and Peace
• Tolstoy
• daily podcast

Keywords

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

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Books & works: War and Peace

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