The Cossacks and Hadji Murat (Pocket Penguins)
Editorial ALLEN LANE
España peninsular
- Editorial ALLEN LANE
- ISBN13 9780241261897
- ISBN10 0241261899
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 416
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Paperback
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Literatura InglesaThe Cossacks and Hadji Murat (Pocket Penguins)
Editorial ALLEN LANE
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, The Cossacks describes the experiences of Olenin, a young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization after spending time with the wild Cossack people. Sevastopol Sketches, based on Tolstoy's own experiences of the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55, is a compelling consideration of the nature of war, while Hadji Murat, written towards the end of his life, returns to the Caucasus of Tolstoy's youth to explore the life of a great leader torn apart by a conflict of loyalties. Written at the end of the nineteenth century, it is amongst the last and greatest of Tolstoy's shorter works.