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Leo Tolstoy

The Cossacks

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A brilliant short novel inspired by Leo Tolstoy's experience as a soldier in the Caucasus, The Cossacks has all the energy and poetry of youth while also foreshadowing the great themes of Tolstoy's later years. His naïve hero, Olenin, is a young nobleman who is disenchanted with his privileged and superficial existence in Moscow and hopes to find a simpler life in a Cossack village. As Olenin foolishly involves himself in their violent clashes with neighboring Chechen tribesmen and falls in love with a local girl, Tolstoy gives us a wider view than Olenin himself ever possesses of the brutal realities of the Cossack way of life and the wild,… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Maude, Alymer / Maude, Louise / Bayley, John
  • ISBN: 978-0-679-43131-2
  • EAN: 9780679431312
  • Produktnummer: 9111977
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.

Über den Autor


PETER CONSTANTINE was awarded the 1998 PEN Translation Prize for Six Early Stories, by Thomas Mann, and the 1999 National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov. Widely acclaimed for his recent translation of the complete works of Isaac Babel, he also translated Gogol's Taras Bulba for the Modern Library. His translations of fiction and poetry have appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Paris Review. He lives in New York City.

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