War and Peace (Upper and Lower)

Author: Leo Tolstoy
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: The World of Peace is a great work by the renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, initially called "the greatest novel in the world." This vast and monumental masterpiece, with an epic grandeur, vividly depicts the major historical events and various aspects of life in Russian society from 1805 to 1820: "Nearly a thousand characters, countless scenes, all possible fields of national and private life, history, war, all the tragedies of humanity, various desires, all stages of life, from the cry of a newborn baby to the burst of emotion in the dying breath of an old person, all the joys and sorrows that humans can experience, all possible thoughts and contents, from the feeling of a thief who steals money from his companions to the noble impulse of heroism and profound contemplation—everything is included in this picture." The writer's extensive coverage and holistic approach to life, along with the full revelation of the intrinsic connections between individual phenomena and the whole, personal destinies and the surrounding world, give this novel immense intellectual and artistic depth. It is an epic of the people's war.