Description
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.
Details
Released: Tue 17 Oct 2006
Catalogue Number: 9780140449594
- Publisher: Penguin Group USA
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Translators: Paul Foote, David McDuff
- Editions: Translation
- Subject Development: Fiction - Classics
- Textual Format: Readings/Anthologies/Collected Works
- Geographic Designator: Russia
- Academic Level: General Adult
- Depth (m): 0.025
- Dewey: 813
- Height (m): 0.197
- Pages: 483
- Place Of Publication: Great Britain/British Isles
- Published Date: Tue 29 May 2007
- Weight (g): 340
- Width (m): 0.133
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