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The Cossacks and other stories / Leo Tolstoy ; translated with notes by David McDuff and Paul Foote ; with an introduction by Paul Foote.
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- ISBN: 0140449590 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780140449594 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xxx, 483 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
- Edition: [New ed.].
- Publisher: London ; Penguin, 2006.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Russian. |
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| Subject: | Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 > Translations into English. Russia > Fiction. |
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The Cossacks and Other Stories
In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, The Cossacks describes the experiences of Olenin, a young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization after spending time with the wild Cossack people. Sevastopol Sketches, based on Tolstoy's own experiences of the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55, is a compelling consideration of the nature of war, while Hadji Murat, written towards the end of his life, returns to the Caucasus of Tolstoy's youth to explore the life of a great leader torn apart by a conflict of loyalties. Written at the end of the nineteenth century, it is amongst the last and greatest of Tolstoy's shorter works.
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