- Early days of the Russian revolution., Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Soviet union, fiction, World war, 1914-1918, fiction
One of a continuing series of books about characters in a peasant village and their involvement in the brewing revolution and civil war. Best to read them in order. The author should have been awarded the Nobel prize decades earlier than he was.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and epic.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 1408
- Publisher
- Tuttle+publishing, Signet Classics, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Editions
- 2
- ISBN
- 9780460878906
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Шолохов) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily in his most famous novel, *And Quiet Flows the Don*.
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