Tolstoy / Neville War & Peace 1 CD

The Neville Jason performance of Tolstoy's War & Peace has been selected as a Top 12 Fiction title for Best Audiobooks of 2007 by AudioFile magazine. 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. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 18.

1. Book 1 (1805) Chapter 1: Well, Prince, So Genoa and Lucca Are Now Just 2. In the Midst of a Conversation on Political Matters 3. The Prince Was Silent and Looked Indifferent 4. Chapter 2: Anna Pavlovnas Drawing Room Was Gradually Filling 5. One of the Next Arrivals Was a Stout, Heavily Built Young Man 6. Chapter 3: Anna Pavlovnas Reception Was in Full Swing 7. Le Charmant Hippolyte Was Surprising By His Extraordinary 8. Chapter 4: Just Then Another Visitor Entered the Drawing Room: 9. The Elderly Lady Who Had Been Sitting with the Old Aunt 10. Chapter 5: And What Do You Think of This Latest Comedy 11. Before Anna Pavlovna and the Others Had Time to Smile 12. Pierre, Not Knowing Whom to Answer, Looked at Them All 13. Chapter 6: Pierre at Prince Andreis Having Thanked Anna 14. Pierre Reaching the House First Went Into Prince Andreis Study 15. Chapter 7: The Rustle of a Womans Dress Was Heard 16. Her Husband Looked at Her As If Surprised to Notice 17. Chapter 8: The Friends Were Silent 18. It Seems Funny to Me, Said Pierre 19. Chapter 9: Pierre at Anatole Kuragins. Dolokhovs Bet. It Was 20. Dolokhov Was of Medium Height, with Curly Hair 21. Placing the Bottle on the Window Sill Where He Could Reach It 22. Chapter 10: A Nameday at the Rostovs Prince Vasili Kept the 23. I Am So Sorry for the Poor Count, Said the Visitor 24. Chapter 11: Natasha and Boris Silence Ensued 25. Chapter 12: The Only Young People Remaining 26. The Elders Began Talking About Bonaparte 27. Chapter 13: When Natasha Ran Out of the Drawing Room 28. Chapter 14: After Receiving Her Visitors, the Countess Was 29. In the Drawing Room the Conversation Was Still Going on 30. Chapter 15: Anna Mikhaylovna and Boris Go to the Dying Count Bezukhovs My Dear Boris, Said Princess Anna 31. Are You Living with Your Mother? 32. Chapter 16: Pierre at His Fathers House. Talks with Boris Pierre, After All, Had Not Managed to Choose a Career 33. Do You Remember Me? Asked Boris Quietly with a Pleasant 34. For a Long Time Pierre Could Not Understand, But When He Did 35. Chapter 17: Countess Rostova and Anna Mikhaylovna After Anna Mikhaylovna Had Driven Off with Her Son 36. Chapter 18: Dinner at the Rostovs. Marya Dmitrievna Countess Rostova, with Her Daughters and a Large Number 37. The Count Burst Out Laughing 38. The Count Went in First with Marya Dmitrievna 39. Chapter 19: At the Mens End of the Table the Talk Grew 40. Chapter 20 Sonya and Natasha. Nikolai Sings. the Daniel Cooper the Card Tables Were Drawn Out, Sets Made Up for Boston 41. Sonya, She Suddenly Exclaimed, As If She Had Guessed 42. While the Couples Were Arranging Themselves 43. Chapter 21: At Count Bezukhovs. Prince Vasili and Catiche While in the Rostovs Ballroom the Sixth Anglaise Was Being 44. Meanwhile Prince Vasili Had Opened the Door to the Princesss 45. Prince Vasili Looked Questioningly at the Princess 46. My Dear Princess Catherina Semenovna, Began Prince Vasili 47. Chapter 22: Anna Mikhaylovna and Pierre at Count Bezukhovs While These Conversations Were Going on 48. Anna Mikhaylovnas Face Expressed a Consciousness 49. Chapter 23: Pierre Well Knew This Large Room 50. As the Bearers, Among Whom Was Anna Mikhaylovna 51. Chapter 24: Anna Mikhaylovna and Catiche Struggle for the Inlaid Portfolio There Was Now No One in the Reception Room 52. Why Don't You Speak, Cousin? Suddenly Shrieked the Princess 53. Chapter 25: Bald Hills ? Prince Nikolai Andreivich Bolkonski _Princess Maryas Correspondence with Julie Karagina at Bald 54. The Motion of the Small Foot Shod in a Tartar Boot 55. Princess Marya Went Back to Her Room with the Sad 56. I Confess I Understand Very Little About All These Matters 57. I Cannot Agree with You About Pierre, Whom I Knew As a Child 58. Chapter 26: Prince Andrei at Bald Hills the Grey-Haired Valet 59. The Little Princess Talked Incessantly 60. Prince Andrei Went Up and Kissed His Father on the Spot 61. Chapter 27: At the Appointed Hour the Prince, Powdered 62. He Is a Great Tactician! Said the Prince to His Son 63. Chapter 28: Prince Andrei Leaves to Join the Army. Princess Marya Gives Him An Icon Prince Andrei Was to Leave 64. I Don't Like Your Mademoiselle Bourienne at All 65. Rays of Gentle Light Shone from Her Large, Timid Eyes 66. When Prince Andrei Entered the Study the Old Man 67. Book 2 (1805) Chapter 1: Review Near Braunau. Zherkov and Dolokhov in October, 1805, a Russian Army Was Occupying the Villages 68. A Member of the Hofkriegsrath from Vienna Had Come 69. Chapter 2: He's Coming! Shouted the Signaller at That Moment 70. Kutuzov Walked Slowly and Languidly Past Thousands of Eyes 71. The Regimental Commander Sought Out Dolokhov in the Ranks 72. Chapter 3: Kutuzov and An Austrian General. Le Malheureux Mack. Zherkovs Foolery on Returning from the Review 73. Though Not Much Time Had Passed Since Prince Andrei Had Left 74. Prince Andrei Was One of Those Rare Staff Officers 75. Chapter 4: Nikolai and Denisov. Telyanin and the Missing Purse the Pavlograd Hussars Were Stationed Two Miles 76. Puckering Up His Face Though Smiling, and Showing 77. When Rostov Went Back There Was a Bottle of Vodka 78. Rostov Went to Telyanins Quarters 79. Chapter 5: Nikolai in Trouble with His Fellow Officers That Same Evening There Was An Animated Discussion 80. Denisov Remained Silent and Did Not Move, But Occasionally 81. Chapter 6: Crossing the Enns Kutuzov Fell Back Toward 82. Chapter 7: Two of the Enemys Shots Had Already Flown 83. Take It If You Like, Said the Officer, Giving the Girl An Apple 84. Chapter 8: Burning the Bridge. Rostovs Baptism of Fire the Last of the Infantry Hurriedly Crossed the Bridge 85. The Black, Hairy, Snub-Nosed Face of Vaska Denisov 86. Colonel, Interrupted the Officer of the Suite 87. On the French Side, Amid the Groups with Cannon 88. Chapter 9: Prince Andrei Sent with Dispatches to the Austrian Court. the Minister of War Pursued By the French Army 89. The Night Was Dark But Starry, the Road Showed Black 90. Prince Andreis Joyous Feeling Was Considerably Weakened 91. Chapter 10: Prince Andrei and Bilibin Prince Andrei Stayed 92. Bilibin Smiled and the Wrinkles on His Face Disappeared 93. Vienna Occupied? 94. Chapter 11: Hippolyte Kuragin and Les Notres Next Day He 95. Chapter 12: Prince Andrei Received By the Emperor Francis Bilibins Story of the Thabor Bridge at the Levee 96. What Is It All About? Inquired Prince Andrei Impatiently 97. Come, You Must Own That This Affair of the Thabor Bridge 98. Chapter 13: Prince Andrei Returns to Kutuzov. Bagration Sent to Hollabrunn That Same Night, Having Taken Leave 99. Kindly Let This Cart Pass. Don't You See It's a Woman? 100. Passing By Kutuzovs Carriage and the Exhausted Saddle Horses 101. Chapter 14: Napoleons Letter to Murat on November 1 102. The Success of the Trick That Had Placed the Vienna Bridge 103. Chapter 15: Prince Andrei Reports to Bagration Between Three 104. They Rode Up the Opposite Hill 105. Since Early Morning ? Despite An Injunction Not to Approach 106. Chapter 16: Prince Andrei Surveys the Position. the First Shot Having Ridden Round the Whole Line from Right Flank to Left 107. Chapter 17: Bagration in Action Mounting His Horse Again 108. Prince Bagration Screwed Up His Eyes, Looked Round 109. Chapter 18: Battle Scenes Prince Bagration, Having Reached 110. While He Was Speaking, the Curtain of Smoke That Had 111. Chapter 19: Quarrelsome Commanders the Attack of the 112. The Squadron in Which Rostov Was Serving Had Scarcely Time 113. Chapter 20: Timokhins Counter-Attack. Tushins Battery the Infantry Regiments That Had Been Caught Unawares 114. Tushins Battery Had Been Forgotten and Only at the Very End 115. From the Deafening Sounds of His Own Guns Around Him 116. Chapter 21: Withdrawal. Tushin Called to Account By Bagration the Wind Had Fallen and Black Clouds, Merging with 117. In the Darkness, It Seemed As Though a Gloomy Unseen River 118. Not Far from the Artillery Campfire, in a Hut That Had Been 119. Your Excellency! P