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  • Published: 25 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141397740
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $17.99

The Cossacks




Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin's 80th anniversary

Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!'

  • Published: 25 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141397740
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $17.99

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.

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