The Cossacks and Hadji Murat (Penguin pocket classics)
Author(s): Leo Tolstoy
'He said that Shamil had ordered Hadji Murat to be taken dead or alive...' 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. This is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Classics
- : 0.239
- : 01 March 2016
- : 181mm X 111mm
- : 01 May 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : Leo Tolstoy
- : Paperback
- : 616
- : English
- : 416