An epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Mikhail Sholokhov (Author)
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984) was born in Russia in
the land of the Cossacks. During the Russian civil war he fought on
the side of the revolutionaries, and in 1922 he moved to Moscow to
become a journalist. In 1926, Sholokhov began writing And Quiet
Flows the Don, and he published the first volume in 1928. Three
more volumes followed with the last one published in 1940. In 1965
he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the artistic
power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has
given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian
people".
The work of Mikhail Sholokhov represents a new phase in literature
and can only be compared with Tolstoy's War and Peace
*Maxim Gorky*
One of the greatest Russian novels of the 20th century... a deeply
humane, epic, utterly compelling portrait of Russia's cataclysmic
entrance into the modern age
*Sunday Times*
The finest realist novel about the Revolution
*New York Times*
A work of undoubted literary distinction
*Guardian*
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