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War and Peace (Classic fiction) by: L.N. Tolstoy List Price: £16.99 CD-Charts Price: £11.04 You Save: £5.95 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9789626340424 Format: Abridged, Audiobook, Box set, Classical, Compilation ISBN: 9626340428 Label: Naxos AudioBooks Manufacturer: Naxos AudioBooks Number Of Discs: 4 Number Of Items: 4 Publication Date: July 31, 2004 Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks Release Date: October 01, 1999 Studio: Naxos AudioBooks Sales Rank: 90373 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - The force that moves nations(contains spoilers) There are two themes in War and Peace: one is "What is the force that moves nations", in other words what causes historical events to take place, the motivation that drives all humans; and the second is the particular focussing on a small number of families and their circle. The sections of the book that deal with warfare and Napoleon are naturally biased towards the Russian viewpoint, with Tolstoy sarcastically referring to "that genius Napoleon." Rules of warfare and theories of battle are expounded and are (surprisingly to me) engrossing. The statistics of this war are staggering: although Moscow was taken by the French, the French army of 600,000 virtually ceased to exist as they struggled to ... Read More: Rating: - Still historicalYou can't not give one of the world's greatest novels five stars. But you can consider how modern readers might find it. There are undoubtedly elements of what we would now call soap opera here - just as there are in Hardy, say, or Austen. Tolstoy's didactic purpose (a critique of 'modern' theories of history) waxes as the book progresses and concludes in a hundred page theoretical diatribe that - while it addresses philosophical issues that still have currency - probably won't detain many non-academic readers. This translation - now nearly 40 years old - has probably been surpassed but remains highly serviceable; realising, as it does, Tolstoy's ability to experiment with narrative postures without ever upsetting the reader's sense of 'normality'. ... Read More: Rating: - The best soap opera ever written!Starting this book I thought I was going to be reading classic literature in a way that was going to be very intellectual. What I got was one of the best dramas ever written but with an epic soap opera feel. If you can make it past the first two hundred pages you will love this book but getting there is hard as there are so many characters that I was very lost for a long time as to who was who and what was happening. Once I'd got past this I found I was reading a great drama about two families and the interaction that happens between them with love and war as the main events to occur. This is not highbrow literature this is great literature of a universal story about life and it doesn't get much better than this. Ignore the amount of pages and enjoy ... Read More: Rating: - THE novelObviously there has been a lot said about this book, and taken together with its sheer size, this makes it a slightly daunting adventure. It took me about 3 months to get through, with a few breaks thrown in, but I enjoyed it from cover to cover. While you might think that no book can merit 1500 pages, Tolstoy dispels this idea. No page is wasted - it really does put a lot of contemporary fiction to shame. The story covers the period 1805-1820, looking at Napoleon's invasion and retreat from Russia. It's main concerns are history and its representation (philosophically expounded upon in the final 50 pages, where all the hints and asides of the previous 1450 are brought together into one huge rebuke of humanity's attitude to itself and its ... Read More: Rating:  - TO be taken lightlyPeople will normally utter such platitudes with this book as 'don't start it lightly', but what is the alternative, to build up to it for years and never end up reading it at all? That, unfortunately is what the majority of owners of this piece do, buy it and let it stand on their shelves gathering dust. I was close to being of this ilk, but a moment of caprice had me actually starting on this tome, and now I'm 670 pages through. I don't hesitate to add, that it is growing tedious at this stage, and I am losing motivation, and it has become an exercise in my determination to finish it. It is difficult to sum up the content briefly. Napoleon has come to power and is aggressively expanding. The Russians, under Kutuzov, and of course Alexander ... Read More: |
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