Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Made War and Peace accessible

This was a wonderful series that I shall watch again and again. First rate casting, simply loved it. This made War and Peace completely accessible. I shall now attempt to read the book (with confidence--I did get the abridged version, which cut out all the French (thank you, all the French was irritating in Anna Karenina) and uses only one form of the Russian name throughout for a given character. Yes, I'm talking about Princess Alexandra Kropotkin's abridged version of the book.) The masterpiece theater series is priceless, the one to get. You will not regret it. Tolstoy is undoubtedly the greatest novelist that has ever lived. Pierre (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins) seems most likely to have been Tolstoy's alter ego War and Peace, so one gets a view into the author's own life and mindset as an added bonus.