{"product_id":"cossacks-introduction-by-john-bayley","title":"Cossacks: Introduction by John Bayley","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCossacks: Introduction by John Bayley\u003c\/h1\u003eLeo Tolstoy\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003eMay 1 1994\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780679431312\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0679431314\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003eA brilliant short novel inspired by Leo Tolstoy's experience as a soldier in the Caucasus, \u003ci\u003eThe Cossacks \u003c\/i\u003ehas all the energy and poetry of youth while also foreshadowing the great themes of Tolstoy's later years. His naïve hero, Olenin, is a young nobleman who is disenchanted with his privileged and superficial existence in Moscow and hopes to find a simpler life in a Cossack village. As Olenin foolishly involves himself in their violent clashes with neighboring Chechen tribesmen and falls in love with a local girl, Tolstoy gives us a wider view than Olenin himself ever possesses of the brutal realities of the Cossack way of life and the wild, untamed beauty of the rugged landscape. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis novel of love, adventure, and male rivalry on the Russian frontier--completed in 1862, when the author was in his early thirties--has always surprised readers who know Tolstoy best through the vast, panoramic fictions of his middle years. Unlike those works, \u003ci\u003eThe Cossacks \u003c\/i\u003eis lean and supple, economical in design and execution. But Tolstoy could never touch a subject without imbuing it with his magnificent many-sidedness, and so this book bears witness to his brilliant historical imagination, his passionately alive spiritual awareness, and his instinctive feeling for every level of human and natural life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390975082541,"sku":"19959","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_23d1a5a4-19c4-4f8c-be8f-c6aa6f92da6b.jpg?v=1787350095","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/cossacks-introduction-by-john-bayley","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}