The Cossacks
$29.75
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
3 April 2006
Summary
Now in paperback—a stand-alone edition of Peter Constantine’s revelatory new translation, which recreates Tolstoy’s original sense of realistic immediacy and humor.
This 1862 novel, in a vibrant new translation by Peter Constantine, is Tolstoy’s semiautobiographical story of young Olenin, a wealthy, disaffected Muscovite who joins the Russian army and travels to the untamed frontier of the Caucasus in search of a more authentic life. While striving to adopt the rough and ready lifesty…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812975048 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812975049 |
| Author: | Leo Tolstoy, Peter Constantine, Cynthia Ozick |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 April 2006 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 132mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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About The Author
Leo Tolstoy
Peter Constantine, winner of a PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize and a National Translation Award, has earned wide acclaim for his translation of the complete works of Isaac Babel. His Modern Library translations include Gogol’s Taras Bulba and Voltaire’s Candide.
Cynthia Ozick is the celebrated author of many novels, including The Shawl, The Puttermesser Papers, and Heir to the Glimmering World, and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for her essay collection Quarrel & Quandary.
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