War and Peace (4 volumes)

Author: Leo Tolstoy
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Selected translations by Dong Qiushi. War and Peace is a grand epic centered around the theme of war, following the lives of four aristocratic families—Kurganin, Bolkonsky, Rostov, and Bezukhov—to depict fifteen years of Russian history in the early 19th century. It portrays the lives of various classes, presenting a magnificent saga that recreates the social landscape of the time. The characters in the work are portrayed with precision and subtlety, and the scenery is vividly brought to life. Despite being a novel from the 19th century, it remains timeless, with no sense of disconnect. The compassion for humanity it expresses transcends the temporal setting, still moving hearts across generations. War and Peace's grand conception and exceptional artistic portrayal stunned the world literary scene, becoming a universally recognized masterpiece of world literature and a precious spiritual treasure for humanity. British writer W. Somerset Maugham and Nobel Prize laureate Roman Rolland praised it as "the greatest novel in history" and "the greatest epic of our time, the modern Iliad."