War and Peace (Includes VCD)

Author: Leo Tolstoy Li Xiaobo
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: "Strong Coffee" Bilingual Classic Series, which will lead you to an intimate encounter with literary classics. Unconsciously, you will be immersed in the joy of reading and find it hard to put down. As you savor the elegant and enduring fragrance of the classics, your chaotic thoughts will find perfect solace. After some contemplation, you will appreciate the juicy and delicious spiritual nourishment bestowed by the masters. In the face of the materialistic and increasingly noisy world today, with the light of the classics, you will find the most suitable way of survival for yourself with a composed attitude. "Strong Coffee" selectively excerpts and condenses the original text, preserving the essence of the masterpiece while maintaining the main theme. It is accompanied by a classic film DVD, and the different Chinese translations of the characters in the masterpiece are uniformly annotated, allowing you to appreciate the classics and savor life in a fast-paced modern world. Let the literary classics accompany us on our long journey of life! Let us get lost in the classics, find tranquility in the classics, and gain enlightenment in the classics! War and Peace is one of the representative works of the renowned 19th-century Russian critical realist writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), written in the 1860s (1863-1869). The author centers the story around the national war of resistance against Napoleon's invasion. Through the depiction of several aristocratic families, it reflects the life in Russia from the defeat of the Russian army in the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805 to the eve of the aristocratic Decembrist uprising in 1825. The novel intertwines "war" and "peace," or "the front" and "the rear," to create a vast and magnificent picture. The novel portrays more than 500 characters, from the highest representatives of the ruling class to ordinary peasants, combining literature, philosophy, and political commentary into a unified whole. Epic narration, various life scenes, and profound character and psychological portrayals are interwoven throughout the book. This novel is undoubtedly an outstanding work in the history of world literature.