War and Peace, one of the greatest novels ever written ... finally translated into Modern Bogan.
Tolstoy would be absolutely stoked. Probably.
It's not a parody. It's not satire. It's a genuine, word-for-word translation of Tolstoy's epic, just with an Aussie accent.
Early 1800s Russia wouldn’t be all that bad a place to live, if it weren’t for all the social protocol and that bloody Napoleon bastard, trying to invade the place.
This is not a parody. This is not a spoof. This is a faithful, unabridged translation. After 150 years, Tolstoy's epic masterpiece War & Peace has finally been reconstructed in a language the modern reader can understand: Australian.
Ah, here we go... We've spent a lovey book 1 in high society, attending soirées and aristocratic feasts (AKA 'Peace'). Now, it seems, it is time to go to War. Obviously it's going to be an absolute shambles.
Bonus material: Book 2 contains a kind of cheat-sheet reference thingy, (so you can more easily follow all the military action), and a preamble from Ander.
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