0241261899 
Paperback The Cossacks and Hadji Murat / Leo Tolstoy.
Publication year: 2016
Format: Paperback
Publisher: London : Penguin Classics,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780241261897 (pbk.) :
Notes:
Translated from the Russian.
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.
Original title: Works. English
Series title: Penguin pocket classics
Description:
416 pages ; 19 cm.
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