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The Cossacks

By Leo Tolstoy
Series: Little Clothbound Classics
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In The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy, a young Russian aristocrat named Dmitri Olenin seeks a different life and joins the Cossack military community in the Caucasus. Immersed in their unique culture, he wrestles with the contrasts between his upbringing and the Cossacks' vibrant, free-spirited lifestyle, prompting introspection about identity and authenticity. The novel explores themes of love, nature, and the quest for meaning in life.
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This book may appeal to you if you're fascinated by the exploration of cultural identity and the Russian spirit, as it vividly depicts the life of the Cossack community. It offers a rich narrative with an emphasis on the clash between refined society and the untamed wilderness, captured through Tolstoy's detailed and reflective storytelling.

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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.

The Cossacks follows Dmitry Andreich Olenin, who, 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...

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241573778

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 November 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 117.0mm

Height: 168.0mm

Weight: 273g

Pages: 272

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Fiction General Fiction Leo Tolstoy Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Little Clothbound Classics

About the Author

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.

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