War and Peace

Chapter 1 Preface
"Nearly a thousand characters, countless scenes, all possible fields of national and private life, history, war, all tragedies in the world, all kinds of lust, all stages of life, from the cry of a baby to the feelings of a dying old man In the last burst, all the joys and pains a man can feel, every possible inner thought, from the sense of a thief who steals his fellow's coins, to the noblest impulses and penetrating meditations of heroism--in this picture Everything is in the painting.” The author’s extensive coverage and overall grasp of life, and his full disclosure of the inner connection between individual phenomena and things as a whole, as well as personal destiny and the surrounding world, endow this novel with a great capacity for thought and art.The author connects war and peace, front and rear, home and abroad, army and society, upper and lower classes, which not only fully reflects the style of the times, but also creates a very broad typical environment for various typical characters.

"War and Peace" is a magnificent masterpiece. It focuses on the issue of war, and uses the lives of the four noble families of Kuragin, Paulkonsky, Rostov, and Bezhukhov as clues to show the history of the first 19 years of the 15th century. The history of Russia in 19 depicts the lives of all classes and is a magnificent epic that reproduces the social style at that time.The characters in the work are accurately and delicately depicted, and the scenery is as close as you can see. Although it is a novel in the [-]th century, it has been handed down to this day without any sense of separation.

The grand conception and excellent artistic description of this book have shocked the world literary world, and it has become a world-recognized world literary masterpiece and a precious spiritual wealth of mankind.

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