The Cossacks and Other Stories
Stories of Sevastopol, the Cossacks, Hadji Murat
$24.51
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
16 October 2006
Summary
Part of the Penguin Classics’ fresh new editions of Tolstoy’s major works - including Antony Briggs’ stunning new translation of War and Peace
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 c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449594 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140449590 |
| Author: | Leo Tolstoy, Paul Foote, David McDuff |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 16 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) was a Russian novelist, social reformer, pacifist, and moral thinker. Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Paul Foote was, until his retirement, a University Lecturer in Russian and Fellow of the Queen’s College, Oxford.
David McDuff was educated at the University of Edinburgh and has translated a number of works for Penguin Classics, including Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
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