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Title: The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy ISBN: 0-7861-0523-2 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 6 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent Short Fiction From Tolstoy
Comment: Tolstoy is one of the most famous names in Russian literature. Sadly, the sheer size of most of his celebrated works, i.e. War and Peace, tend to make many readers anxious. However, readers fail to realize that Tolstoy has quite a phenomenal collection of short fiction, such as this 178-page novella.
Tolstoy explores the dissatisfaction a young Russian aristocrat holds towards the emptiness of high-society, and his subsequent journey in search of meaning. The aristocrat finds himself as a young Russian army officer, serving at a remote Cossack outpost in the Caucasus. Here he finds that his wealth and breeding do not garner him respect. Instead he is looked upon as an outsider, and an unwelcome one at that.
Nevertheless, the aristocrat finds himself in love with a beautiful Cossack girl, who is promised to a Cossack warrior. Tolstoy discusses the emotions that rise between these three parties regarding love, class, and sacrifice.
Indeed, The Cossacks is great first exposure to Leo Tolstoy and his descriptive writing style is sure to lead the reader to explore more of his works.
Rating: 5
Summary: An outstanding tale of aristocrats and peasants.
Comment: Truly the best novella that I have ever read. The story of a young Russian aristocrat disillusionned with the life of a city gentleman who looks to the simpler life of a soldier in the Caucasus for his completion. An outstanding read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Novella
Comment: Timeless. While the novella centers around a Russian Tribe known as the 'Cossacks', it also tells the story of a young nobleman disenchanted with the high society Moscow crowd who sets out to find himself and discover the joys of youth.
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Title: Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol, Peter Constantine, Robert D. Kaplan ISBN: 0679642552 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Alexander Pushkin: The Collected Stories (Everyman's Library) by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Alexander Pushkin, Paul Debreczeny, Walter Arndt ISBN: 0375405496 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Azar Nafisi ISBN: 0812967119 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Collected Shorter Fiction - Volume 2 by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer J. Maude, Nigel J. Cooper, John Bayley, Louise Shanks Maude, Aylmer Maude ISBN: 0375412875 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Cossacks: An Illustrated History by John Ure ISBN: 158567138X Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 25 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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