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The Cossacks and Other Stories

Leo Tolstoy

Paperback | Pages: 483 pages

Rating: 4 | 595 Users | 45 Reviews

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Title	:	The Cossacks and Other Stories
Author	:	Leo Tolstoy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 483 pages
Published	:	September 28th 2006 by Penguin Classics (first published 1863)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature. Short Stories. 19th Century

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In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army. The four years he spent as a soldier were among the most significant in his life and inspired the tales collected here. In ?The Cossacks,? Tolstoy tells the story of Olenin, a cultured Russian whose experiences among the Cossack warriors of Central Asia leave him searching for a more authentic life. ?The Sevastopol Sketches? bring into stark relief the realities of military life during the Crimean War. And ?Hadji Murat? paints a portrait of a great leader torn apart by divided loyalties. In writing about individuals and societies in conflict, Tolstoy has penned some of the most brilliant stories about the nature of war.

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ISBN:	0140449590 (ISBN13: 9780140449594)
Edition Language:	English

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It was one of those special evenings that occur only in the Caucasus. The sun had gone behind the mountains, but it was still light. The sunset had taken over a third of the sky, and the lustreless white masses of the mountains stood out sharply against it. The air was thin, motionless and resonant. A long shadow, extending for several versts, was being cast on the steppe by the mountains. Everywhereon the steppe, beyond the river, along the roadsis deserted. If at the rarest of intervals men

I read this book during my years of 'discovery '. The time I was reading everything that fell into my hands, or recommended to me. I didn't know then that 19th century literature is so dull and heavy on the chest (if I may say in my very humble opinion ). This book had a different and lighter mood. It was more pleasant and colorful than most of what I read during that era. I'm not expert enough to decide whether that was due to the fact that this was a Tolstoy or whether it was due to the

Tolstoy, when you don't feel like committing to a thousand pages. It's great.

The genius of Tolstoy is his ability to write complex characters and situations while still being easy to read. The simplest of the writing is in The Cossacks but still Tolstoy's eye for nuance is apparent. You feel as if you are living in close quarters with all the characters. The disillusioned Russian fleeing an empty upper class existence in Moscow to riding horseback, hunting pheasants and sitting around smoky campfires with the Cossacks. Sevastopol stories I found fascinating. Perhaps



Family Happiness 2.5 A bit formulaic with stock characters. But an insightful story into marriage. The Cossacks 4.5 Wonderful. Like a sample size of what Tolstoy hast offer in his full novels. The character progression in Olenin is very enjoyable. In a sense Olenin felt very familiar, like he reminded me other characters, but I never could place it. Olenins letter towards the end was fabulous. The themes of feeling at home and being an outsider are wonderfully developed. Olenin does not

The only point causing me to withhold one-star is the final story: Two Hussars. The other four stories are amazing. The Cossacks was my introduction to Tolstoy, and I've been hooked on his material since first reading that novella. The other three truly short stories in the compilation are amazing and though provoking.