The Cossacks (MP3 CD)

The Cossacks By Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude (Translator), Aylmer Maude (Translator) Cover Image
By Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude (Translator), Aylmer Maude (Translator)
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Olenin is an aimless young nobleman who is disenchanted with city life. Taking a post as a Cadet in the army, he finds himself assigned to the remote Cossack outpost in the Caucasus. It is here, among the Tatars, the Chechens, and the Old Believers, that he will fall in love with a beautiful Cossack girl. The only problem is that she is promised to a Cossack warrior. In the setting of what is present-day Kazakhstan, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first is the dilemma of a young man who desires both fulfilling love and a place as a respected member of society. The other is the difficulty of a primitive society to accept domination by a higher culture that has no understanding of the traditions it asks its colonists to cast aside.
Product Details
ISBN: 9780786177523
ISBN-10: 0786177527
Publisher: Alcazar Audioworks
Publication Date: January 1st, 2006
Language: English