With its mix of romance and drama charted over 1,300 pages, War and Peace is known for being a long and demanding novel to read.

长篇浪漫小说《战争与和平》全书1300多页，素以篇幅长、阅读难度大而闻名。

But despite a TV adaptation of the book aired on the BBC, even some of the stars of the production have admitted to never reading the classic before landing their roles.

一部根据本书改编的电视剧已于BBC频道开播。不过，参演的不少明星都承认：在接到这个角色之前，他们从未读过这本经典名著。

The epic novel about the French invasion of Russia seen through the eyes of five aristocratic families, by Leo Tolstoy, was first published in 1869 and took the author more than six years to write.

这部史诗小说为列夫·托尔斯泰所著，写作时间历时六年多，于1869年首次出版。该书从五个贵族家庭的视角向读者展现了法国入侵俄国的那段历史。

It is considered one of the great novels of the literary world but also as a tough read, given it is length and the fact it has more than 600 characters.

《战争与和平》是世界文学中最伟大的作品之一，但由于篇幅长，加上书中人物达600多个，所以读者阅读起来很有难度。

And several of the stars have admitted to the Telegraph only reading it when landing their roles.

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