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  • Published: 7 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241573778
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $24.99

The Cossacks




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Dmitry Andreich Olenin, in the hope of escaping the hollowness of his privilege, joins the army and heads to the Caucasus. There among the foothills, he will meet the Cossacks: a people he considers to be at one with the land. In their company he will hunt, he will drink, he will fall in love and, slowly, he will begin to understand that between people, between cultures, there is often a space that cannot be traversed . . .

  • Published: 7 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241573778
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910.

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