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Толстой Лев Николаевич
War and Peace: Original Version
Аннотация к произведению War and Peace: Original Version - Лев Толстой
An alternative version – the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished – of Russia’s most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon – it’s time to look afresh at one of the world’s favourite books.‘War and Peace’ is a masterpiece – a panoramic portrait of Russian society and its descent into the Napoleonic Wars which for over a century has inspired reverential devotion among its readers.This version is certain to provoke controversy and devotion in equal measures. A ‘first draft’ of the epic version known to all, it was completed in 1866 but never published. A closely guarded secret for a century and a half, the unveiling of the original version of ‘War and Peace’, with an ending different to that we all know, is of huge significance to students of Tolstoy. But it is also sure to prove fascinating to the general reader who will find it an invigorating and absorbing read. Free of the solemn philosophical wanderings, the drama and tragedy of this sweeping tale is reinforced. His characters remain central throughout, emphasising their own personal journeys, their loves and passions, their successes and failures and their own personal tragedies.500 pages shorter, this is historical fiction at its most vivid and vital, and readers will marvel anew at Tolstoy’s unique ability to conjure the lives and souls of Russia and the Russians in all their glory. For devotees who long for more, for those who struggled and didn’t quite make it to the end, or for those who have always wanted to know what all the fuss is about, this is essential reading.
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Contents
War and Peace
Original Version
Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Andrew Bromfield
Introduction by Nikolai Tolstoy
Contents
Title Page
Introduction
A Note on the Translation
Table of Russian Weights and Measures
List of Illustrations
Part I
I
“Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now…
II
Anna Pavlovna’s drawing room began filling up little by little.
III
Anna Pavlovna’s soirée was in full swing. On various sides…
IV
This new person was the young Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, husband…
V
Anna Pavlovna requested the vicomte to wait while she showed…
VI
The end of the vicomte’s story went as follows:
VII
“The entire nation will die for its Emperor, for the…
VIII
Having thanked Anna Pavlovna for her charming soirée, the guests…
IX
Reaching the house first, Pierre, as if he lived there,…
X
A woman’s dress rustled in the next room. As if…
XI
The friends were silent. Neither said a word. Pierre kept…
XII
It was after one in the morning when Pierre left…
XIII
Prince Vasily kept the promise that he had made to…
XIV
Silence fell. The countess looked at her guest with a…
XV
Of the young people, aside from the countess’s elder daughter,…
XVI
When Natasha came out of the drawing room and started…
XVII
The countess felt so tired after the visits that she…
XVIII
In the drawing room the conversation was continuing.
XIX
“My dear Boris,” Princess Anna Mikhailovna said to her son…
XX
Boris, thanks to his placid and reserved character, was never…
XXI
When Anna Mikhailovna and her son left to go to…
XXII
Countess Rostova and her daughter and an already large number…
XXIII
It was that moment before a formal dinner when the…
XXIV
Natasha was clearly unable to sit still. She pinched her…
XXV
The card tables had all been set up, parties sat…
XXVI
Meanwhile Natasha, running first into Sonya’s room and not finding…
XXVII
Natasha whispered to Nikolai that Vera had just upset Sonya…
XXVIII
While at the Rostovs’ house they were dancing the sixth…
XXIX
While these conversations were taking place in the reception room…
XXX
Pierre knew this large room, divided by columns and an…
XXXI
There was no longer anyone in the reception room apart…
XXXII
At Bleak Hills, the estate of Prince Nikolai Andreevich Bolkonsky,…
XXXIII
Princess Marya went back to her room with the sad,…
XXXIV
The grey-haired valet was dozing in his chair, listening to…
XXXV
When the twenty minutes remaining until the time for the…
XXXVI
“Well now, Mikhail Ivanovich, our Buonaparte is having a hard…
XXXVII
Prince Andrei was leaving in the evening of the next…
Part II
I
In October 1805, Russian forces were occupying the villages and…
II
“He’s coming!” a signalman shouted at just that moment.
III
The regiment broke up into companies and set out for…
IV
On returning from the review, Kutuzov went through into his…
V
The Pavlograd Hussars Regiment was stationed two miles from Braunau.
VI
Kutuzov withdrew towards Vienna, destroying the bridges on the rivers…
VII
Two enemy shots had already flown over the bridge, and…
VIII
The remaining infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, funnelling in tightly…
IX
After crossing the bridge, one after another the two squadrons…
X
Pursued by a French army of a hundred thousand men…
XI
Prince Andrei went on to the house of the Russian…
XII
The following morning he woke late. Reviewing his impression of…
XIII
The Emperor Franz approached Prince Andrei, who was standing in…
XIV
That same night, having taken his leave of the war…
XV
On the 1st of November Kutuzov had received, via one…
XVI
Between three and four in the afternoon Prince Andrei, having…
XVII
“Eh bien,” Prince Andrei said to himself, “the Army of…
XVIII
Prince Andrei halted his horse at the battery, surveying the…
XIX
Prince Bagration, having ridden up to the very highest point…
XX
The attack by the Sixth Chasseurs made it possible for…
XXI
The infantry regiments, caught by surprise in the forest, were…
XXII
Tushin’s battery had been forgotten, and it was only at…
XXIII
The wind died down and black clouds hung low over…
XXIV
“Who are they? Why are they here? What do they…
Part III
I
Prince Vasily did not brood over his plans, any more…
II
After Pierre and Hélène’s wedding, the old prince Nikolai Andreevich…
III
The Rostovs had had no news about Nikolai for a…
IV
On the 12th of November Kutuzov’s active army, camped near…
V
The day after Boris’s meeting with Rostov, there was a…
VI
The day after the review Boris, dressed up in his…
VII
That very day there had been a council of war…
VIII
On the 15th of November the allied army advanced from…
IX
Before dawn the next day, Denisov’s squadron, in which Nikolai…
X
The following day the sovereign remained at Wischau. His physician-in-ordinary…
XI
After nine in the evening Weierother moved on with his…
XII
It was after one in the morning when Rostov, sent…
XIII
It was nine o’clock in the morning. The fog extended…
XIV
The plan for the Battle of Austerlitz had been drawn…
XV
At the beginning of the battle Prince Bagration, reluctant to…
XVI
By five o’clock in the evening the battle had been…
XVII
Prince Andrei was lying on Pratzen Hill, still at the…
XVIII
At the beginning of 1806, Nikolai Rostov went home on…
XIX
The following day, the 3rd of March, after one o’clock…
XX
The following day at Sokolniki Pierre, as absent-minded as ever,…
XXI
Recently Pierre had only seen his wife at night or…
XXII
Two months had passed since Bleak Hills received news of…
XXIII
“Ma bonne amie,” the little princess said after breakfast on…
XXIV
The impression of the first war with Napoleon was still…
XXV
Despite the sovereign’s strict attitude to duellists at that time,…
XXVI
Two days after clarifying things with his wife, Pierre went…
XXVII
The matter between Pierre and Dolokhov was hushed up and,…
XXVIII
In 1807 Pierre finally set off on a tour of…
XXIX
After his three-week sojourn in the country, concerning which he…
XXX
In 1807 life at Bleak Hills had changed little, except…
XXXI
Although the final debt of forty-two thousand, taken on to…
XXXII
The sovereign was in residence at Bartenstein. The army was…
XXXIII
Boris had found himself a position with the Emperor’s staff…
XXXXIV
After the Friedland disaster, Nikolai Rostov had been left as…
Part IV
I
No one mentioned “Buonaparte”, the Corsican upstart and Antichrist, any…
II
With the exception of a short visit to St. Petersburg,…
III
On arriving in St. Petersburg in 1809, Prince Andrei ordered…
IV
Prince Andrei was a novelty in St. Petersburg. His claim…
V
In the evening, after leaving the countess’s drawing room, Pierre…
VI
The Rostovs’ financial affairs had not been restored during the…
VII
Natasha, having lived in solitude in the country for the…
VIII
Prince Andrei arrived in St. Peterburg in August 1809. At…
IX
The day after his visit to Count Arakcheev, Prince Andrei…
X
There were many reasons that had led Pierre to this…
XI
On the 31st of December, the eve of the New…
XII
The following day Prince Andrei woke up and smiled, without…
XIII
For four days Prince Andrei did not go to the…
XIV
The morning after her bed-time discussion with her mother, when…
XV
Prince Nikolai Andreevich Bolkonsky and his daughter spent that winter…
Part V
I
The Biblical tradition has it that the absence of labour…
II
It was the 12th of September. There were already early…
III
About five male house serfs, both big and little, came…
IV
In the late autumn another letter was received from Prince…
V
The Yuletide season arrived. Besides the festive liturgy, at which…
VI
Natasha was the first to set the tone of Yuletide…
VII
The love between Prince Andrei and Natasha and their happiness…
VIII
At the beginning of winter, Prince Nikolai Andreevich Bolkonsky and…
IX
In 1811 a French doctor acquired rapid fashionability in Moscow.
X
Pierre’s suppositions concerning Boris were correct. Boris could not make…
XI
The Rostovs arrived in early February. Natasha had never been…
XII
That evening the Rostovs went to the theatre. Natasha had…
XIII
In the year of 1811, life in Moscow was very…
XIV
The brightly lit drawing room at the Bezukhovs’ house was…
XV
After his first meeting with Natasha in Moscow, Pierre had…
Part VI
I
In the spring of 1812, Prince Andrei was in Turkey,…
II
The count was in despair. He wrote to send for…
III
“My brother sovereign!” Napoleon wrote in the spring of 1812…
IV
On the 11th of June at eleven o’clock in the…
V
The Russian Emperor and his court had already been living…
VI
As he despatched Balashov, the sovereign repeated yet again his…
VII
The gloomy soldier Davout was the complete opposite of Murat.
VIII
After Balashov had spent four days in solitude, boredom and…
IX
After his meeting with Pierre in Moscow, Prince Andrei went…
X
Prince Andrei reached army Central Headquarters on the 13th of…
XI
While Prince Andrei was living on the Drissa with nothing…
XII
Before the start of the campaign, when the regiment was…
XIII
More than a year had passed since Natasha had rejected…
XIV
As promised, Pierre came to dinner straight from Count Rostopchin’s…
XV
On the twelfth the sovereign arrived in Moscow and from…
Part VII
I
What had to happen was bound to happen. Just as…
II
After Prince Andrei’s departure, the old Prince Bolkonsky’s daughter observed…
III
Among the countless categories of all the phenomena of life,…
IV
While this was taking place in St. Petersburg, the French…
V
“The bird returned to its native fields” galloped to the…
VI
Between four and five in the evening that day, long…
VII
On taking command of the armies, Kutuzov remembered Prince Andrei…
VIII
On the 24th of August the French Emperor’s chamberlain, de…
IX
The Shevardino redoubt was attacked on the evening of the…
X
After the sovereign left Moscow, when that first moment of…
XI
On that clear evening of the 25th of August, Prince…
XII
At six o’clock it was light. It was a grey…
XIII
Prince Andrei was in the reserves, who had been firing…
XIV
After the Battle of Borodino, immediately after the battle, the…
XV
The following day Napoleon stood on Poklonnaya Hill and looked…
XVI
The two princesses (the third had married long ago) had…
XVII
In St. Petersburg, after the sovereign’s arrival from Moscow, many…
XVIII
On the 1st of October, on the feast of the…
XIX
In the middle of September the Rostovs and their transport…
XX
After the enemy’s entry into Moscow and the reports denouncing…
XXI
During this period, when all the French wanted was to…
XXII
Pierre was with this depot among the prisoners. On the…
XXIII
One of the first people Andrei met in the army…
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