The Don Flows Home to the Sea - Softcover

Sholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589633504 ISBN 13: 9781589633506

Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL), 2001

Synopsis

Sholokhov's book introduces the reader to a New World that is not merely the Don Region, but the world of the author's inimitably poetic prose; giving fifteen years of his life to the creation of "And Quiet Flows the Don." He began the first book at the age of twenty, in 1926. The last was finished in 1940. While Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" (1863-69) immortalized the Napoleonic campaigns to the eve of the Decembrist revolt, "And Quiet Flows the Don" showed the destruction of the Cossacks and the birth of a new society. "The Don Flows Home to the Sea," part two of the original novel, describes the effect of World War I, the revolution, and the civil war on the lives of the Don Cossacks.

About this title

About the Author:

Mikhail (Aleksandrovich) Sholokhov (1905-1984) was a Russian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965. Sholokhov's best-known work is the novel "And Quiet Flows the Don" (1926-40). His books have been translated into 58 languages. "And Quiet Flows the Don" has gone through over 170 editions in the USSR amounting to more than eight and a half million copies. "The Don Flows Home to the Sea" was published in English translation in 1940.

He was a writer who had his roots deep among the people, Sholokhov was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, a well-known public figure and a member of the Academy of Sciences.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1589633504
• ISBN 13: 9781589633506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404