War and Peace: Original Version. Лев Толстой
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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