9780451500564 - The Cossacks and The Raid (1 risultati)

paperback. Condizione: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. New York. 1961. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451500563. Newly Translated from the Russian By Andrew R. MacAndrew.Afterword By F.R. Reeve. 224 pages. paperback. CD56. Cover: Dillon. keywords: Signet Classic Russia Translated Literature 19th Century Paperback. DESCRIPTION - To read Tolstoy's early sketch, The Raid, and his first novel, The Cossacks, is to enter the workshop of a great writer and thinker. In The Raid Tolstoy explores the nature of courage itself, a theme central to War and Peace. In The Cossacks he sets forth all the motifs of his whole future life and his work. The hero is a young man - about - town who has squandered half his fortune - and his life - and retires to the desultory existence of a regiment stationed in mountainous Cossack country, where he takes part in the daily life of a Cossack village. But his love for the beautiful Maryanka precipitates a conflict between the belief that 'Happiness lies in living for others' and a passion that sweeps self - abnegation aside. As Romain Rolland says,' The full force of Tolstoy's descriptive powers is already expressed in this splendid [novel] and Tolstoy's realism shows itself with equal force in depicting human character.' inventory #29906.