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The Cossacks and Other Stories

The Cossacks and Other Stories

2006 ·
·3.97·393 Ratings ·483 Pages
“ Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ” ― Rumi
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  • Master and Man and Other Stories

    2005·
    ·4.07·241 Ratings
    The stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy’s artistic prowess displayed over five decades— experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humor and compassion. “The Two Hussars,” inspired by his time in the army,
  • The Sebastopol Sketches

    1986·
    ·3.88·1,431 Ratings
    In the winter of 1854 Tolstoy, then an officer in the Russian army, arranged to be transferred to the besieged town of Sebastopol. Wishing to see at first hand the action of what would become known as the Crimean War, he was spurred on by a fierce patriot
  • Devil's Island

    2000·
    ·3.57·95 Ratings
    Set in Reykjavík, this novel charts the changes that took place when the rural community clashed with the American popular culture brought by American troops. The story concerns two brothers, one of whom returns to "Devil's Island" with an American accen
  • Red Cavalry and Other Stories

    2005·
    ·3.95·351 Ratings
    Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloym
  • Poor Folk and Other Stories

    1988·
    ·3.87·438 Ratings
    Poor Folk was Dostoyevsky's first great triumph in fiction and the work that looks forward to the double-acts and obsessions of his later genius. It takes place in a world of office , lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished lo
  • Great Short Works

    2004·
    ·4.3·2,186 Ratings
    Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote
  • The Kingdom of God Is Within You

    2006·
    ·4.13·2,176 Ratings
    Banned in Russia, Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You was deemed a threat to church and state. The culmination of a lifetime's thought, it espouses a commitment to Jesus's message of turning the other cheek. In a bold and original manner, Tolstoy s
  • Walk in the Light & Twenty-Three Tales

    2003·
    ·4.15·266 Ratings
    Uncluttered by the complexities of plot and character that daunt so many readers of the longer Russian masterpieces, Tolstoy's tales illumine eternal truths with the forceful brevity. While inspired by the sense of spiritual certainty, their narrative qua
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