War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (ebook reader for pc TXT) 📕
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Against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, five aristocratic families in Russia are transformed by the vagaries of life, by war, and by the intersection of their lives with each other. Hundreds of characters populate War and Peace, many of them historical persons, including Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I, and all of them come to life under Tolstoy’s deft hand.
War and Peace is generally considered to be Tolstoy’s masterpiece, a pinnacle of Russian literature, and one of history’s great novels. Tolstoy himself refused to call it that, saying it was “not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle.” It contains elements of history, narrative, and philosophy, the latter increasing in quantity as the book moves towards its climax. Whatever it is called, it is a triumph whose breadth and depth is perhaps unmatched in literature.
This production restores the Russian given names that were anglicized by the Maudes in their translation, the use of Russian patronymics and diminutives that they eliminated, and Tolstoy’s original four-book structure.
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“Andréy, why didn’t you warn me?” ↩
“Delighted to see you. I am very glad to see you.” ↩
“You must know that this is a woman.” ↩
“For heaven’s sake.” ↩
“But, my dear, you ought on the contrary to be grateful to me for explaining to Pierre your intimacy with this young man.” ↩
“Princess, on my word, I did not wish to offend her.” ↩
“In a minute I shall be at your disposal.” ↩
“The principle of monarchies is honor seems to me incontestable. Certain rights and privileges for the aristocracy appear to me a means of maintaining that sentiment.” ↩
“If you regard the question from that point of view.” ↩
The Illuminati sought to substitute republican for monarchical institutions. ↩
“That’s a superb animal.” ↩
“Of a charming woman, as witty as she is lovely.” ↩
“That girl shall be my wife.” ↩
“Delighted to see you.” ↩
“He is all the rage just now.” ↩
To be a man. ↩
“Cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood.” ↩
The French shawl dance. ↩
“He is charming; he has no sex.” ↩
To force the guard. ↩
Death gives relief and death is peaceful.
Ah! from suffering there is no other refuge.
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Poisonous nourishment of a too sensitive soul,
Thou, without whom happiness would for me be impossible,
Tender melancholy, ah, come to console me,
Come to calm the torments of my gloomy retreat,
And mingle a secret sweetness
With these tears that I feel to be flowing.
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Are the pretty women. ↩
“To shed (or not to shed) the blood of his peoples.” ↩
Old style. ↩
Those whom (God) wishes to destroy he drives mad. ↩
“Long live the king.” ↩
“Royalty has its obligations.” ↩
Forty-two. ↩
“Food for cannon.” ↩
“Moscow, the Asiatic capital of this great empire, the sacred city of Alexander’s people, Moscow with its innumerable churches shaped like Chinese pagodas.” ↩
“Child of the Don.” ↩
“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.” ↩
“Don’t see it that way, that’s the trouble.” ↩
“When in doubt, my dear fellow, do nothing.” ↩
“Think it over; get into the barque, and take care not to make it a barque of Charon.” ↩
“It is the talk of all Moscow. My word, I admire you!” ↩
“Who excuses himself, accuses himself.” ↩
“A little bit in love with the young man.” ↩
A kind of entrenchment. ↩
“The war must be extended widely. I cannot sufficiently commend that view.” ↩
“Oh, yes, the only aim is to weaken the enemy, so of course one cannot take into account the loss of private individuals.” ↩
Lay member of the Society of Jesus. ↩
A masterly woman. ↩
“Oh, Mamma, don’t talk nonsense! You don’t understand anything. In my position I have obligations.” ↩
“No, tell him I don’t wish to see him, I am furious with him for not keeping his word to me.” ↩
“Countess, there is mercy for every sin.” ↩
“That Asiatic city of the innumerable churches, holy Moscow! Here it is then at last, that famous city. It was high time.” ↩
“Bring the boyars to me.” ↩
“My dear, my tender, my poor mother.” ↩
“House of my Mother.” ↩
To Rostopchín’s ferocious patriotism. ↩
“Good day, everybody!” ↩
“Are you the master here?” ↩
“Quarters, quarters, lodgings! The French are good fellows. What the devil! There, don’t let us be cross, old fellow!” ↩
“You can’t pass!” ↩
“Look here, no nonsense!” ↩
Though a foreigner, Russian in heart and soul. ↩
Our most gracious sovereign. ↩
Whose flames illumined his route. ↩
“My child! I love you and have known you a long time.” ↩
“Thank you for coming, my dear.” ↩
As looters. ↩
Large battalions are always victorious. ↩
A captain of Cossacks. ↩
“Ah, it’s you! Do you want something to eat? Don’t be afraid, they won’t hurt you.” ↩
“Come in, come in.” ↩
“Thank you, sir.” ↩
“Who goes there?” ↩
“Lancers of the 6th Regiment.” ↩
“Password.” ↩
“Tell me, is Colonel Gérard here?” ↩
“When an officer is making his round, sentinels don’t ask him for the password. … I am asking you if the colonel is here.” ↩
“Good day, gentlemen.” ↩
“To your places.” ↩
“Get along, get along!” ↩
“I have acted the Emperor long enough; it is time to act the general.” ↩
“It is great.” ↩
That it is great. ↩
“From the sublime to the ridiculous is but
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