产生于清代的中国古代家庭小说的一部重要作品。小说从始至末，一直笼罩着一种人生始梦的幻灭感。作者全力塑造出一个完美女性的悲剧形象，通过这样一个完美女性的毁灭，揭示出封建社会女性的悲惨的生存状况和不可避免的悲剧。《林兰香》具有一种朴素生动而又泼辣峭利的文字风格，尤其为人称道的是人物的语言，具有鲜明的性格色彩，真是一人一风格，一人一性情，确属难能可贵。小说从始至末，一直笼罩着一种人生始梦的幻灭感。开卷写道：“天地逆旅，光阴过客，后之视今，今之视昔，不过梨园，一弹词，一梦幻而已”。作者对历史，对人生的之种虚无幻灭的慨叹，与《红楼梦》中“好一似食尽鸟投林”落了片白茫茫大地真干净，何其相似。
War and Peace (Pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in its entirety in 1869. Epic in scale, it is regarded as one of the central works of world literature.War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families.
