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The Cossacks

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Cossacks
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Leo Tolstoy
SeriesLittle Clothbound Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 167,Width 120
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780241573778
ClassificationsDewey:891.733
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
NZ Release Date 7 February 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. 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 . . .

Author Biography

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.