The Cossacks and Other Stories - Paperback
by Leo Tolstoy
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Availability:In StockContributor:Leo Tolstoy, David McDuff (Translator), David McDuff (Notes by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2007-06-01Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780140449594ISBN-10:140449590UPC:9780140449594Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, Short Stories (single author)Size:7.77 x 5.11 x 0.89 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCS30K24YR
The Cossacks and Other Stories
Tolstoy's powerful semiautobiographical stories based on his time spent in the Russian army, part of our series of fresh new Tolstoy translations In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army. The four years he spent as a soldier were among the most significant in his life and inspired the tales collected here. In "The Cossacks," Tolstoy tells the story of Olenin, a cultured...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780140449594ISBN-10:140449590UPC:9780140449594Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, Short Stories (single author)Size:7.77 x 5.11 x 0.89 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCS30K24YR
Count Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University in 1844. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty in the army, serving as a junior officer in the Crimean War before retiring in 1857. In...
Publisher: Penguin Group
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Leo Tolstoy, David McDuff (Translator), David McDuff (Notes by)
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