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Before getting started let us take an introduction of this book .



Introduction of this book

"War or Peace"written  by Leo Tolstoy has earned the status of one of the most famous, yet most difficult, books in the modern library. The book's terrifying popularity is due to the fact that most of its  printed editions have more than 1,000 copies and contains a lot of pages.Yet, despite the fact that it is very difficult, it has maintained the legacy of being a masterpiece and has been loved by many who have read it.


It is a book about life, which is why the book "War and Peace" is still relevant to the modern reader. It is a book that skillfully conveys the beauty of simply,  its  moving scenes, relatable characters and realistic character development and what actually it is .


Valuebality of the book 

And it was when the novel  was first written,   it was no more  valuable than in a messy modern world.   


As Richard  ​in the introduction  to his translation of "War and Peace," the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev have once criticized the novel because he claimed that the characters  in the  book "WAR  OR  PEACE "  were all mediocre." This is  quite  true in a sense. Unlike other Russian novelists like Dostoevsky, the characters Tolstoy portrays are very ordinary. There is a very lear trend towards extraordinary unique characters  in Russian literature, who oppose society as they have crazy existential dilemmas. "War and Peace's" main character seems to break that mold in  the book .





 Novel’s greatest strength is actually one of this aspect of being ordinary . Most of us want  to be more   stable and  ordinary than standard characters of Russian literature, and it’s much easier for many people to relate to a character like as Natasha Rostov or Pierre Bezukhov from War and Peace than to someone to like “the underground man” from “Notes from Underground” whose author is Dostoevsky.  Tolstoy is able to express the extraordinariness of everyday living more broadly through the normalcy of his characters.


Here we have  one such example, Nikolai Rostov, who is one of the novel’s central characters, gambles his way into tremendous debt and comes home after loosing a huge amont of money. As he comes to a stage where he is contemplating suicide, he hears his sister Natasha singing in his room . He had heard his sister sing infinite times before, but it  was the first time when  he had listened to her intentionally. 

While listening to Natasha singing , Rostov is temporarily changed . After listening her sister singing he forgets all  his debts and his afflictions and was can think only of that musical harmony and it touched him.