Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
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Description
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Шолохов) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily in his most famous novel, And Quiet Flows the Don.
Books
Early stories
Presents nineteen stories written by American author Willa Cather between 1892 and 1900, and includes editorial notes throughout.
Quiet Flows the Don
First pub. 1934. Set during the years of revolution, the story of personal struggle, which mirrors the spirit of Russia as a whole.
Short stories
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving [Young Goodman Brown]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Fall of the House of Usher]( / Edgar Allan Poe The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville The diamond lens / Fitzjames O'Brien The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte [Damned Thing]( / Ambrose Bierce The turn of the screw / Henry James The Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne Jewett The gift of the Magi / O. Henry The moving finger / Edith Wharton The open boat / Stephen Crane Lou, the prophet / Willa Cather The men of Forty Mile / Jack London Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald [A rose for Emily]( William Faulkner Big two-hearted river / Ernest Hemingway Flight / John Steinbeck
And Quiet Flows the Don
One of a continuing series of books about characters in a peasant village and their involvement in the brewing revolution and civil war. Best to read them in order. The author should have been awarded the Nobel prize decades earlier than he was.
Tikhii Don
Marathi translation of the Don flows home to the sea, English translation of the author's Tikhiĭ Don.