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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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Fiction in translation

• Full title: Cossacks and Other Stories
• Author: Leo Tolstoy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528
• EAN: 9780140449594
• ISBN: 0140449590
• ID: 04024602
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 362 g
• Dimensions: 130 × 440 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. September 2006

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