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The Cossacks
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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 Roland 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 nature.
| Author | Cynthia Ozick (introduction), Leo Tolstoy, Peter Constantine (translator) |
|---|---|
| Book Series | Modern Library Classics |
| Format | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780812975048 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 155 |
| Publication Date | 02-13-2006 |
| Publisher | Modern Library |
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mishmashmusic (verified owner) –
When you think of Tolstoy, you most likely think of his epic novels, like Anna Karenina or War and Peace. You probably don’t think of his shorter pieces like The Cossacks, a shorter novella that is considered to be the author’s autobiography. The book centers around an unhappy Muscovite nobleman named Dmitri Olénin who joins the army in search of adventure and purpose in his life. He winds up in the Caucasus and is intrigued by the geography and the simple people who live there. Along the way, he discovers himself and falls in love for the first time, and in turn discovers the pain love can bring. We meet a cast of characters that includes the manly Cossack soldier Lukashka, the beautiful Cossack girl Maryanka, and the larger-than-life grandfather figure, Uncle Yeroshka, each of who play an important role in the life education of Olénin.