This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/war-and-peace-vol-1-1805-1906-by-leo-tolstoy/
”War and Peace” is a panoramic novel: It is its own justification, and perhaps needs no introduction. It always reminds the translator of a broad and mighty river flowing onward with all the majesty of Fate. On its surface, float swiftly by logs and stumps, cakes of ice, perhaps drowned cattle or men from regions far above. These floating straws, insignificant in themselves, tell the current. Once embark upon it, and it is impossible to escape the onward force that moves you so relentlessly. What landscapes you pass through, what populous towns, what gruesome defiles, what rapids, what cataracts! The water may be turbid, or it may flow translucent and pure, – but still it rushes on. Such to me is “War and Peace.”
“War and Peace,” like all of Count Tolstoi’s works, is a mighty protest against war. There is no arguing in it about the waste, and the demoralization, and the cruelty, and the unmanliness of it, but, like all Russian argument, it is by vivid pictures such as no one can resist.
The present translation has been made from the original Russian. Tolstoi has been felicitously called “the Russian Rembrandt.” It is not fair to reproduce Rembrandt as a Teniers. One may be sometimes tempted to substitute the curved line of beauty for the straight line of duty, or soften a harsh silhouette, but beyond certain unavoidable issues of the sort necessary for reproducing the impression given by the original, the translator ought to be as faithful as possible. Here the old law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, repudiated by Count Tolstoi, ought to have a new application. (from the Preface by N.H. Dole)
- Target completion date: December 31, 2013
- Text source (only read from this text!): http://archive.org/details/warandpeace01dolegoog
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): Standard
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Soloist - please provide *all of* the following:- Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): ): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_tolstoy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Haskell_Dole
- Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace
- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 66
- Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: n (at least, I’m not reading it.)
- Original publication date (if known): 1889
- Year of author's death (note: in some countries copyright is author's death + 50 or 70 years): 1910
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Start of recording (Intro) [I’ll read the full intro at the beginning of each Part.]- "Volume 1, Part [number], Chapter [number] of War and Peace. - This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
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"War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. Volume [number], Part [number], Chapter [number]."
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Artist: Leo Tolstoy (Dole)
Album: War and Peace
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. I've started to miss PLing you, and W&P is one of those books that people should read, but always gets moved down toward the bottom of the to read pile (mainly because it's kinda long!)
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I'll get to PLing later tonight! 
. . . I've actually been working on these sections for over two months . . . but didn't want to officially "start" the project until I had done enough to be sure that I had the appetite to finish at least the first volume. I know, I know, - I was running a risk because what if there was a PD issue and the work couldn't be used? But I was pretty sure from Anna Karenina that Dole's translations of Tolstoy would be OK and I really wasn't sure how all the French would work out . . . so I wanted to be sure before I took up an MC's time and our valuable server space . . .