Mikhail Sholokhov
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| Title | : | And Quiet Flows the Don (And Quiet Flows the Don #1-4) |
| Author | : | Mikhail Sholokhov |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1408 pages |
| Published | : | 1996 by Dent (first published 1934) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Literature. Russian Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Тихий Дон, lit. "The Quiet Don") is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The 1st three volumes were written from 1925 to '32 & published in the Soviet magazine October in 1928–32. The 4th volume was finished in 1940. The English translation of the 1st three volumes appeared under this title in 1934. The novel is considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature in the 20th century. It depicts the lives & struggles of Don Cossacks during WWI, the Russian Revolution & Russian Civil War. In 1965, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for this novel. The authorship of the novel is contested by some literary critics & historians, who believe it wasn't entirely written by Sholokhov.Mention Books As And Quiet Flows the Don (And Quiet Flows the Don #1-4)
| Original Title: | Тихий Дон |
| ISBN: | 0460878905 (ISBN13: 9780460878906) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | And Quiet Flows the Don #1-4 |
| Characters: | Grigore Pantelejevic Melehov, Aksinja Astahova, Natalija Mironovna |
| Literary Awards: | Сталинская премия for Художественная проза (первая степень) (1940) |
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Tiknii Don = Quietly Flows the Don: a novel in Four books, Mikhail SholokhovAnd Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don or Quiet Don, is an epic novel in four volumes by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The first three volumes were written from 1925 to 1932 and published in the Soviet magazine Oktyabr in 19281932, and the fourth volume was finished in 1940. The English translation of the first three volumes appeared under this title in 1934. The novel is considered one ofТихий Дон = Tiknii Don = And Quiet Flows the Don Vol. 1, Mikhail Sholokhov And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Quiet Don) is an epic novel in four volumes by Russian writer Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov. The first three volumes were written from 1925 to 1932 and published in the Soviet magazine Oktyabr in 19281932, and the fourth volume was finished in 1940. The English translation of the first three volumes appeared under this title in 1934. The novel deals with the life of the
I initially thought reading this would take longer than a month, but somehow I managed to rock its Russian face. It's no secret that these Russian tomes can often be dense, filled with hundreds of characters (with a bunch of different names) doing things in highly detailed settings, where things like a blade of grass or a pebble in a river somehow manage to be a character themselves for fifty pages or so. Russian novels are dark and cold, just like the land from whence they came. Many of the
A book about life of Cossacks approaching the times of First World War and Russian Revolution. It is more realistic account of rural.life I have come across. Characters are complex with a roughness on the visible behaviour and the author writes so beautifully about Don and areas surrounding it.
So this book as a book ... it's becoming so hard to read literature as just works of art and not as articles of a culture. This book seems to have a lot of history & context surrounding it's creation & publication. The actual book can only hint at the culture of the people showcased within it's pages. All of the conflicting ideas the characters represent only hint at the complexity of the time.Sholokhov was a Cossack and he wrote a book about Cossacks. Why is this suddenly so
And Quiet Flows the Don: Part 2 of 2 (And Quiet Flows the Don #3-4), Mikhail SholokhovTiknii Don = Quietly Flows the Don: a novel in Four booksAnd Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don or Quiet Don, is an epic novel in four volumes by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The first three volumes were written from 1925 to 1932 and published in the Soviet magazine Oktyabr in 19281932, and the fourth volume was finished in 1940. The English translation of the first three volumes
In 1965 Mikhail Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for And Quiet Flows the Don. It is a lengthy novel about the Cossack people covering a time period starting from the end of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 through the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War. The English language Audible version of And Quiet Flows the Don is 13 hours long, unabridged, read by Stefan Rudnicki but is only the first of the book's four volumes. The following three
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