Leo Tolstoy: War & Peace - Volume II (unabridged)
Read by Neville Jason
- Release Date: 30th Oct 2006
- Catalogue No: NAX43412
- Label: Naxos AudioBooks
- Series: Classic Fiction, Complete Classics
- Length: 31 hours 21 minutes
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War and Peace, Vol. 2
BOOK 9 (1812): Chapter 1: Rulers and Generals are history's slaves. From the …
The actions of Napoleon and Alexander, on whose words …
Chapter 2: Napoleon crosses the Niemen. On the twenty-ninth …
Vivat!' shouted the Poles, ecstatically, breaking their rank …
Chapter 3: Alexander I at Vilna. The Emperor of Russia had …
But the Emperor and Balashev passed out into the …
Chapter 4: Balashev's mission to Napoleon. At two in the …
But though he firmly believed himself to be King of Naples …
Chapter 5: Balashev is at last presented to Napoleon in Vilna Davout was to Napoleon what Arakcheev was to …
Balashev took out the packet containing the Emperor's letter …
Chapter 6: Balashev's interview with Napoleon. Though Balashev …
Balashev recovered himself and began to speak.
The whole purporse of his remarks now was evidently to …
Balashev knew how to reply to each of Napoleon's remarks …
Chapter 7: Balashev dines with Napoleon. After all that …
Napoleon was in that well-known after-dinner mood which …
Chapter 8: Prince Andrei on Kutuzov's staff in Moldavi. He visits Bald Hills After his interview with Pierre in …
During his stay at Bald Hills all the family dined together …
As soon as Prince Andrei had given up his daily occupations …
Chapter 9: Prince Andrei in the army at Drissa Prince Andrei …
Besides these Russians and foreigners who propounded new …
The eighth and largest group, which in its enormous numbers …
Chapter 10: Prince Andrei is introduced to Pfuel. This letter …
Pfuel, always inclined to be irritably sarcastic, was …
Chapter 11: An informal council of war Prince Andrei's eyes …
Paulucci and Michaud both attacked Wolzogen simultaneously …
Chapter 12: Nikolai writes to Sonya. Before the beginning of …
The two Pavlograd squadrons were bivouacking on a field …
Chapter 13: Marya Hendrikhovna In the tavern, before which …
Chapter 14: Rostov goes into action It was nearly three …
As soon as the sun appeared in a clear strip of sky …
Chapter 15: Rostov's hussars charge the French dragons Rostov, with his keen sportsman's eye, was one of the …
Count Ostermann-Tolstoy met the returning hussars …
Chapter 16: Natasha's illness On receiving news of Natasha's …
What would Sonya and the count and countess have done …
Chapter 17: Natasha and Pierre. Natasha was calmer …
Before the end of the feast of St. Peter, Agrafena Ivanovna Belova …
Chapter 18: Natasha attends Mass and hears the special prayer for Victory. At the beginning of July more and more …
When they prayed for the warriors, she thought of her brother …
Lord God! Hear us when we pray to Thee; strengthen with …'
Chapter 19: Pierre's feelings for Natasha. Napoleon as Anti-Christ From the day when Pierre, after leaving the Rostovs' …
Writing the words L'Empereur Napoleon in numbers, it appears …
Chapter 20: Pierre at the Rostovs'. Petya determined to join the Army A few intimate friends were dining with the …
Just then Petya came running in from the drawing room.
After reading about the dangers that threatened Russia, the …
Chapter 21: Petya goes to the Kremlin to see the Emperor. After the definite refusal he had received, Petya went to …
So this is what the Emperor is!' thought Petya.
Suddenly the sound of a firing of cannon was heard …
Chapter 22: Assembly of gentry and merchants at the Sloboda Palace. Two days later, on the fifteenth of July, an …
Count Rostov's mouth watered with pleasure and he nudged …
Another voice, that of a nobleman of medium height and …
Chapter 23: The Emperor calls for the support of the gentry. At that moment Count Rostopchin with his protruding …
BOOK 10 (1812): Chapter 1: Reflections on the campaign of 1812. Napoleon …
At the very beginning of the war our armies were divided …
At last the Emperor left the army, and as the most convenient …
Chapter 2: Prince Nikolai Bolkonski's inability to understand the war. The day after his son had left, Prince Nikolai …
At dinner that day, on Dessalles' mentioning that the French …
Chapter 3: Prince Nikolai Bolkonski sends Alpatych to Smolensk. When Michael Ivanovich returned to the study with the …
Chapter 4: The bombardment of Smolensk Bald Hills, Prince …
All night long troops were moving past the inn.
People were anxiously roaming about the streets.
The cook and a shop assistant came to the gate.
As Alpatych was driving out of the gate he saw some ten …
Chapter 5: The retreat. From Smolensk the troops continued …
Prince Andrei rode up to the house.
One fair-haired young soldier of the third company …
Chapter 6: Anna Pavlovna's and Helene's rival salons. Among the innumerable categories applicable to the …
This was quite correct on the twenty-fourth of July.
Chapter 7: Napoleon orders an attack on Moscow While this …
Finding himself in the company of Napoleon, whose identity …
Chapter 8: Prince Nikolai Bolokonski is taken ill. Princess Marya was not in Moscow and out of …
Strange as it was to acknowledge this feeling in herself …
Princess Marya entered her father's room and went up to his bed.
He closed his eyes and remained silent a long time.
Chapter 9: The rebellious mood of the Bogucharovo peasants. Until Prince Andrei settled in Bogucharovo its owners …
More important still, Alpatych learnt that on the morning …
Now just listen, Dronushka,' said he.
Chapter 10: Princess Marya makes up her mind to leave Bogucharovo. After her father's funeral Princess Marya …
Mademoiselle Bourienne took from her reticule a proclamation …
At length Dron, the village Elder, entered the room …
Chapter 11: Princess Marya addresses the peasants. An hour …
Chapter 12: Princess Marya remembers her father For a long …
Chapter 13: Nikolai and Ilyin ride to Bogucharovo. On the …
Rostov looked at the tipsy peasants and smiled.
Chapter 14: Nikolai confronts the peasants. 'Well, is she pretty?.
Alpatych turned to the peasants and ordered two of them by …
But the princess, if she did not again thank him in words …
Chapter 15: Prince Andrei goes to headquarters. On receiving …
Denisov rose and began gesticulating as he explained his plan …
But at that moment Denisov, no more intimidated by his …
Chapter 16: 'Well, that's all!’ said Kutuzov as he signed …
Taking his hand and drawing him downwards, Kutuzov …
Chapter 17: Moscow after the Emperor's visit. After the …
In Julie's set, as in many other circles in Moscow, it had been …
Chapter 18: Rostopchin's broadsheets. Pierre leaves for the army. When Pierre returned home he was handed two of …
Next day toward evening the princess set off, and Pierre's head …
Pierre choked, his face puckered, and he turned hastily away …
Chapter 19: The senselessness of the Battle of Borodino. On the …
Not only did the Russians not fortify the position on the field …
Chapter 20: Pierre looks for the position occupied by the army. On the morning of the twenty-fifth Pierre was leaving …
Having gone nearly three miles he at last met an acquaintance …
Chapter 21: Pierre surveys the scene. Pierre stepped out of his …
The officer appeared abashed, as though he understood that …
Chapter 22: Pierre meets old acquaintances. Staggering amid …
An adjutant told Pierre of his Serene Highness's wish, and …
Chapter 23: Pierre rides to the left flank with Bennigsen. From Gorki, Bennigsen descended the highroad to the …
Chapter 24: Prince Andrei's reflections on life and death. On that bright evening of August 25, Prince Andrei lay …
He looked at the row of birches shining in the sunshine, with …
Chapter 25: Prince Andrei's opinions on war. The spirit of the army. The officers were about to take leave, but Prince …
Pierre looked at him in surprise.
Extend widely!' said Prince Andrei with an angry snort …
Prince Andrei, who had thought it was all the same to him …
Chapter 26: Napoleon's proclamation On August 25, the eve of …
De Beausset bowed gratefully at this regard for his taste for …
Chapter 27: Napoleon's dispositions for the Battle of Borodino. On the twenty-fifth of August, so his historians tell us …
The Vice-King will occupy the village and cross by its three …
Chapter 28: Why the battle had to be fought. Many historians …
Chapter 29: The game begins. On returning from a second …
Chapter 30: Pierre reviews the battlefield from the knoll at Gorki. On returning to Gorki after having seen Prince Andrei …
These puffs of smoke and (strange to say) the sound of …
Chapter 31: Pierre under fire Having descended the hill the …
Pierre went to the battery and the adjutant rode on.
Oh, she nearly knocked our gentleman's hat off!'
Chapter 32: The Redoubt captured and retaken Beside himself …
Chapter 33: The course of the battle. The chief action of the …
From the battlefield adjutants he had sent out, and orderlies …
Chapter 34: Napoleon's view of the battle Napoleon's generals …
A beatific smile of regret, repentance, and ecstasy beamed on …
Chapter 35: Kutuzov directs the army On the rug-covered …
Wolzogen, nonchalantly stretching his legs, approached …
Chapter 36: Prince Andrei with the reserve under fire. Prince Andrei's regiment was among the reserves which …
The adjutant, having obeyed this instruction, approached …
Chapter 37: The operating tent. One of the doctors came out …
His very first, remotest recollections of childhood came back …
Chapter 38: Napoleon's interpretation of the war. The terrible …
Not only on that day, as he rode over the battlefield strewn …
Chapter 39: A moral victory Several tens of thousands of the …
BOOK 11 (1812): Chapter 1: The method of history. Absolute continuity of …
Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation …
Chapter 2: Summary of the campaign. The forces of a dozen …
For people accustomed to think that plans of campaign and …
Chapter 3: Kutuzov and his Generals at Poklonny Hill When …
Chapter 4: The Council of War The Council of War began to …
The discussion began.
There followed a momentary pause, which seemed very long …
Chapter 5: Reflections on the abandonment of Moscow At that …
Chapter 6: Helene in Petersburg. Helene, having returned with …
After that a long-frocked abbe was brought to her.
Chapter 7: Helene's conversion. Helene understood that the …
Bilibin wrinkled up the skin over his eyebrows and pondered …
Chapter 8: Pierre walks to Mozhaysk. Toward the end of the …
Chapter 9: Pierre returns to Moscow. Scarcely had Pierre laid …
He felt ashamed, and with one arm covered his legs from which …
Chapter 10: Pierre goes to see Count Rostopchin. On the …
The count had a stye,' replied the adjutant smiling, 'and was …
Chapter 11: In the middle of this fresh tale Pierre was summoned …
Chapter 12: The Rostovs arrange to leave Moscow. The Rostovs …
From the twenty-eighth till the thirty-first all Moscow was in a …
Chapter 13: On Saturday, the thirty-first of August, everything …
Natasha quietly repeated her question, and her face and whole …
Chapter 14: Madame Schoss, who had been out to visit her …
Chapter 15: Moscow's last day had come.
But at the same moment an expression of warm gratitude on …
Chapter 16: Berg, the Rostovs' son-in-law, was already a colonel …
Natasha left the room with her father and as if finding it difficul …
Chapter 17: Before two o'clock in the afternoon the Rostovs' …
Rarely had Natasha experienced so joyful a feeling as now …
Chapter 18: Pierre at Bazdeev's house. For the last two days …
Pierre knew that Makar Alexeevich was Joseph Bazdeev's …
Chapter 19: Napoleon surveys Moscow from Poklonny Hill. Kutuzov's order to retreat through Moscow to the Ryazan …
(It seemed to Napoleon that the chief import of what was …)
Chapter 20: Moscow. A queenless hive Meanwhile Moscow …
Chapter 21: Looting The Russian troops were passing through …
Chapter 22: Meanwhile, the city itself was deserted.
Chapter 23: A brawl among workmen From an unfinished …
Questions and answers were heard.
Chapter 24: Rostopchin On the evening of the first of September …
All his painstaking and energetic activity (in how far it was …)
Chapter 25: Vereshchagin Toward nine o'clock in the morning …
Rostopchin went again to the balcony door.
All eyes were fixed on him.
Only when the victim ceased to struggle and his cries changed …
Having reached his country house and begun to give orders …
Chapter 26: The French enter Moscow. Toward four o'clock …
Who these men were nobody knew.
No residents were left in Moscow, and the soldiers – like water
Chapter 27: Pierre's plan to save Europe. Makar Alexeevich The absorption of the French by Moscow, radiating …
It was the feeling that induces a volunteer recruit to spend …
Chapter 28: The French officer Pierre, having decided that …
Chapter 29: When the French officer went into the room with …
The captain was so naively and good-humouredly gay, so real …
When he returned to the room Pierre was sitting in the same …
There were very many of these, as one could easily believe …
Having finished his tale about the enchanting Polish lady …
Chapter 30: The Rostovs at Mytishchi The glow of the first fire …
Chapter 31: The valet, returning to the cottage, informed the …
The countess, Madame Schoss, and Sonya undressed hastily …
Chapter 32: Seven days had passed since Prince Andrei found …
His mind was not in a normal state.
Piti-piti-piti and ti-ti and piti-piti-piti boom!' flopped the fly …
Chapter 33: Pierre sets out to meet Napoleon. On the third of …
Though he heard and saw nothing around him he found his …
Pierre turned back, giving a spring now and then to keep up …
Chapter 34: Having run through different yards and side …
The beautiful Armenian still sat motionless and in the same …
BOOK 12 (1812): Chapter 1 Anna Pavlovna's soiree. In Petersburg at that time …
Supposing that by these words Anna Pavlovna was somewhat …
Chapter 2: Anna Pavlovna's presentiment was in fact fulfilled.
Chapter 3: Michaud's report Nine days after the abandonment …
Michaud had only waited for this to bring out the phrase he had …
Chapter 4: Nikolai sent to Voronezh. An evening at the Governor's. It is natural for us who were not living in …
Immediately on leaving the governor's, Nikolai hired post horses …
Chapter 5: Nikolai sat leaning slightly forward in an armchair …
Nikolai suddenly felt a desire and need to tell his most intimate …
Chapter 6: Nikolai and Princess Marya On reaching Moscow …
Had Princess Marya been capable of reflection at that moment …
Chapter 7: A letter from Sonya. The dreadful news of the battle …
Princess Marya had made an agreeable impression on him …
Nikolai took the two letters, one of which was from his mother …
Chapter 8: Sonya's vision. Sonya's letter written from Troitsa …
As soon as the prior withdrew, Natasha took her friend by the …
Chapter 9: Pierre's treatment as a prisoner. The officer and …
Chapter 10: On the eighth of September an officer - a very …
Pierre was silent because he was incapable of uttering a word.
Chapter 11: From Prince Shcherbatov's house the prisoners …
On the faces of all the Russians and of the French soldiers and …
Chapter 12: Platon Karataev. After the execution Pierre was …
And the soldier, pushing away a little dog that was jumping up …
He seated himself more comfortably and coughed, evidently …
Chapter 13: Rostovs Twenty-three soldiers, three officers …
He did not like talking about his life as a soldier, though he …
Chapter 14: Princess Marya goes to the Rostovs in Yaroslavl. When Princess Marya heard from Nikolai that her brother …
Despite her excitement, Princess Marya realized that this was …
Chapter 15: When Natasha opened Prince Andrei's door with a …
Princess Marya heard his words but they had no meaning for her …
Chapter 16: Not only did Prince Andrei know he would die, but …
He looked at her without moving and saw that she wanted to …
Once again it pushed from outside.
BOOK 13 (1812): Chapter 1 The cause of historical events Man's mind cannot …
That flank march might not only have failed to give any …
Chapter 2: Napoleon's letter to Kutuzov. The famous flank …
Chapter 3: The Emperor's letter to Kutuzov. The Russian army …
It would seem that, availing yourself of these circumstances …
Chapter 4: Bennigsen's note and the Cossack's information that … .
Chapter 5: Next day the decrepit Kutuzov, having given orders …
Chapter 6: The Battle of Tarutino. Next day the troops assembled …
And the adjutant galloped through the forest after Grekov.
Chapter 7: Meanwhile another column was to have attacked …
Chapter 8: Napoleon's measures Napoleon enters Moscow …
Chapter 9: Napoleon's proclamations in Moscow. With regard …
With regard to commerce and to provisioning the army, the …
Chapter 10: But strange to say, all these measures, efforts, and …
This is what the army authorities were reporting …
Chapter 11: Pierre in captivity. Early in the morning of the …
Pierre inquired what was being said about leaving, and the …
Chapter 12: Four weeks had passed since Pierre had been taken …
Chapter 13: The French leave Moscow. The French evacuation …
Pierre went up to him, though he knew his attempt would be vain.
Chapter 14: Through the cross streets of the Khamovniki quarter …
It seemed that all these men, now that they had stopped amid …
Chapter 15: The Russian army In the early days of October …
Chapter 16: It was a warm, dark, autumn night.
Chapter 17: News of the French having left Moscow reaches Kutuzov. Kutuzov like all old people did not sleep much …
He imagined all sorts of movements of the Napoleonic army …
Chapter 18: From the time he received this news to the end of …
Chapter 19: A man in motion always devises an aim for that …
BOOK 14 (1812): Chapter 1: The national character of the war. The Battle of …
The French historians, describing the condition of the French …
Chapter 2: One of the most obvious and advantageous …
Chapter 3: Partisans or guerrillas. The so-called partisan war …
No, brother, I have gwown moustaches myself,' said Denisov …
Chapter 4: It was a warm rainy autumn day.
The approaching riders having descended a decline were no …
Chapter 5: The rain had stopped, and only the mist was falling …
Tikhon Shcherbaty was one of the most indispensable men in …
Chapter 6: After talking for some time with the esaul about …
Chapter 7: The French drummer boy Petya, having left his …
Then suddenly, dismayed lest he had said too much, Petya …
Chapter 8: Dolokhov and Denisov. The arrival of Dolokhov …
Chapter 9: The attack on a French convoy. Having put on …
Dolokhov said that he and his companion were trying to …
Chapter 10: Having returned to the watchman's hut, Petya …
Petya ought to have known that he was in a forest with …
Chapter 11: Petya The men rapidly picked out their horses …
He could hear shooting ahead of him.
Chapter 12: Pierre's journey among the prisoners. During the …
At Dorogobuzh while the soldiers of the convoy, after locking …
Chapter 13: Karataev's story. At midday on the twenty-second …
Having put up at an inn they both went to sleep, and next …
Chapter 14: 'A vos places!' suddenly cried a voice - To your places.
Chapter 15: The stores, the prisoners, and the marshal's baggage …
Chapter 16: Berthier's report to Napoleon. After the …
Chapter 17: The flight beyond Smolensk. The movements of …
Chapter 18: This campaign consisted in a flight of the French …
Chapter 19: Why the French were not cut off by the Russians. What Russian, reading the account of the last part of the last …
All the profound plans about cutting off and capturing Napoleon …
BOOK 15 (1812 - 1813): Chapter 1: The Rostovs. Natasha's grief When seeing a dying …
She felt all the time as if she might at any moment penetrate that …
Chapter 2: Natasha comforts her mother. Besides a feeling of …
Chapter 3: Natasha and Princess Marya leave for Moscow. Princess Marya postponed her departure.
From that day a tender and passionate friendship such as exists …
Chapter 4: Analysis of Kutuzov's movements. After the …
This longing to distinguish themselves, to manoeuvre, to …
Chapter 5: In 1812 and 1813 Kutuzov was openly accused of …
But that man, so heedless of his words, did not once during the …
Chapter 6: Kutuzov at Krasnoe. The fifth of November was the …
He paused and looked around.
Chapter 7: Encampment for the night. When the troops reached …
Chapter 8: One would have thought that under the almost …
The soldier said no more and the talk went on.
Chapter 9: The fifth company was bivouacking at the very edge …
Chapter 10: The crossing of the Berezina. The French army …
After the junction with the army of the brilliant admiral and …
Contrary to the Emperor's wish Kutuzov detained the greater …
Chapter 11: Next day the field marshal gave a dinner and ball …
Chapter 12: Pierre's illness and recovery at Orel. As generally …
And by old habit he asked himself the question: 'Well, and what …'
Chapter 13: In external ways Pierre had hardly changed at all.
Willarski was a married man with a family, busy with his family …
Chapter 14: Moscow It would be difficult to explain why and …
Chapter 15: Pierre visits Princess Marya. At the end of January …
The princess rose quickly to meet him and held out her hand.
Chapter 16: 'She has come to stay with me,' said Princess Marya …
Chapter 17: Pierre was shown into the large, brightly lit dining …
Pierre continued.
Chapter 18: It was a long time before Pierre could fall asleep …
Pierre dined with them and would have spent the whole …
Chapter 19: There was nothing in Pierre's soul now at all like …
Chapter 20: After Pierre's departure that first evening, when …
FIRST EPILOGUE (1813 – 1820): Chapter 1 The forces operating in history. Seven years had …
In what does the substance of those reproaches lie?
Chapter 2: Chance and genius. If we assume as the historians do …
Chapter 3: Glory and grandeur. The fundamental and essential …
He is needed for the place that awaits him, and so almost apart …
Chapter 4: Alexander renounces power. The flood of nations …
Chapter 5: A death and two weddings in the Rostov family. Natasha's wedding to Bezukhov, which took place in 1813 …
Not one of the plans Nikolai tried succeeded; the estate was sold …
Chapter 6: Nikolai calls on Princess Marya. At the beginning …
They spoke of the countess’s health, of their mutual friends, of …
Chapter 7: Family life at Bald Hills. In the winter of 1813 …
He did not allow himself either to be hard on or punish a man …
Chapter 8: One matter connected with his management …
Among the gentry of the province Nikolai was respected but …
Chapter 9: Nikolai and Marya It was the eve of St. Nicholas …
Sonya was always the first excuse Countess Marya found for …
Natasha smiled bashfully.
Chapter 10: Natasha and Pierre. Natasha had married in the …
There were then as now conversations and discussions about …
Chapter 11: Two months previously when Pierre was already …
Denisov, who had come out of the study into the dancing room …
Chapter 12: As in every large household, there were at Bald Hills …
Life was cheaper because it was circumscribed: that most …
Chapter 13: When Pierre and his wife entered the drawing room …
Natasha saw by Pierre’s animation that his visit had been …
Chapter 14: The views of Pierre and Nikolai. Soon after this the …
Natasha, who had long expected to be fetched to nurse her baby …
Nikolai, who had left his nephew, irritably pushed up an …
Chapter 15: Two married couples. The conversation at supper …
Yes, that’s it! That's just what I said to him,' put in Nikolai …
Chapter 16: Little Nikolai Natasha and Pierre, left alone, also …
Yes, I should think …' Natasha began.
SECOND EPILOGUE (1813–1820): Chapter 1: The forces that move nations. History is the life of …
But modern history cannot give that reply.
Chapter 2: What force moves the nations?
Peasants having no clear idea of the cause of rain, say, according …
Chapter 3: A locomotive is moving.
Chapter 4: Having abandoned the conception of the ancients as …
To these questions three answers are possible …
These historians resemble a botanist who, having noticed that …
Chapter 5: The life of the nations is not contained in the lives of …
Not to speak of the fact that no description of the collective …
Chapter 6: Only the expression of the will of the Deity, not …
So that examining the relation in time of the commands to the …
Chapter 7: When an event is taking place people express their …
Only by watching closely moment by moment the movement of …
Chapter 8: The problem of free will and necessity If history …
He could not live, because all man’s efforts, all his impulses to …
Chapter 9: For the solution of the question of free will or …
All cases without exception in which our conception of freedom …
The third consideration is the degree to which we apprehend …
Chapter 10: Thus our conception of free will and inevitability …
But even if - imagining a man quite exempt from all influences …
Apart from these two concepts which in their union mutually …
Chapter 11: History examines the manifestations of man's free …
Chapter 12: From the time the law of Copernicus was discovered
