The Cossacks
of Leo Tolstoy, Peter Constantine (Translator), Cynthia Ozick (Introduction)
Description
To read Tolstoy's early sketch, The Raid, and his first novel, The Cossacks, is to enter the workshop of a great writer and thinker. In The Raid Tolstoy explores the nature of courage itself, a theme central to War and Peace. In The Cossacks he sets forth all the motifs of his whole future life and his work. The hero is a young man-about-town who has squandered half his fortune - and his life - and retires to the desultory existence of a regiment stationed in mountainous Cossack country, where he takes part in the daily life of a Cossack village. But his love for the beautiful Maryanka precipitates a conflict between the belief that "Happiness lies in living for others" and a passion that sweeps self-abnegation aside. As Romain Roland says, "The full force of Tolstoy's descriptive powers is already expressed in this splendid [novel] and Tolstoy's realism shows itself with equal force in depicting human nature."
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 161 pages
- Publisher Modern Library
- Publication Date February 14th 2006
- First Publication 11/06/63
- Language English
- ISBN 9780812975048
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Caucasus', 'Russian Empire']
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