Part 1, Chapter 1, Sentence 58. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Russian: Война и мир, Лев Николаевич Толстой), translated by Constance Garnett in 1930, read usually (but not today!) by Tod Beardsley, who started in 2026.

This is Episode 1.1.58 of War in Pieces, a daily podcast reading Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace one sentence at a time, using the public-domain Constance Garnett translation. This episode was read by Damien Crawford of the Wait,What?! podcast. Special thanks to Damien Crawford for contributing their voice to this project.

War and Peace was first published as a complete work in 1869, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest works of world literature. This recording is one small part of a grand audio project releasing one sentence per day.

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