The Cossacks

Informationen zum Autor Leo Tolstoy Klappentext 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... 'It is the richness of Tolstoy's genius that strikes us most in this story' Virginia Woolf Zusammenfassung 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... 'It is the richness of Tolstoy's genius that strikes us most in this story' Virginia Woolf

Product details

• Authors: Leo N. Tolstoi, Leo Tolstoy
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780241573778
• ISBN: 978-0-241-57377-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 167 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Little Clothbound Classics; Little Clotbound Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Interior life, c 1860 to c 1869, Russian tsarist empire, FICTION / World Literature / Russia / 19th Century, The Caucasus