Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace - Original Version

Translated by Andrew Bromfield

Introduction by Nikolai Tolstoy

Cover

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…