War and Peace, Vol. 2
"[War and Peace] felt so specific to the world of Tolstoy’s creation, but also to right now. What is living in the United States in 2020 but a society of people trying to disregard what is painful until it comes, in favor of thinking about what is pleasant?…There are reasons to read War and Peace beyond being able to brag about having read War and Peace. Those reasons are particularly pointed right now, at a time when it feels like society might need an unlikely miracle to be saved.”
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A Vox Book Club Pick for 2020
Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
A 2007 Audie Award Finalist for Best Narration
A 2007 Audiofile Magazine “Best of the Year” Selection
War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. The universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, and youth and age are expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869. It is famously one of the longest books in Western literature and therefore a remarkable challenge for any reader.
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