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The Cossacks and Other Stories

Pocket
Engelsk
The Cossacks and Other Stories
The Cossacks and Other Stories
  • Forfatter: Leo Tolstoy
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 528
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9780140449594
  • Utgivelsesår: 2006
  • Bidragsyter: Tolstoy, Leo
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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.