The Cossacks

Leo Tolstoy

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Penguin
07 February 2023

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation

Series: Little Clothbound Classics

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Dmitry Andreich Olenin, in the hope of escaping the hollowness of his privilege, joins the army and heads to the Caucasus. There among the foothills, he will meet the Cossacks- a people he considers to be at one with the land. In their company he will hunt, he will drink, he will fall in love and, slowly, he will begin to understand that between people, between cultures, there is often a space that cannot be traversed . . .

By: Leo Tolstoy
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 167mm, Width: 120mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 271g
ISBN: 9780241573778
ISBN 10: 0241573777
Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 07 February 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.