About this episode

This episode features a reading of Part 1, Chapter 2, Sentence 40 from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

Part 1, Chapter 2, Sentence 40. 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
• reading
• Tolstoy
• War and Peace
• translation
• history

Keywords

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

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Books & works: War and Peace

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