Stories [antikvár]

"Sholokhov's stories are like a flash of bright colour, a lovely steppe flower. Their rich dialogue is the authentic language of the Cossacks. The compact nanative throbs with life and tension99 wrote Alexander Serafimovich, a veterán § oviét writer, in his preface to Sholokhov's "Tales of the Don" (1925). This was the young writefs first book, which won him instant recogiütion a?nong the reading public. The "Tales99 were written at the sarne time as the early chapters of "And Quiet Flows the Don99, and Í7i both works the author sought to show "the tremendous changes wrought in Man's everyday life aítd outlook by war and revolution99 (Sholokhov). This edition includes six of the finest stories from the "Tales of the Don99 and Sholokhov9s world-famous (LThe Fate of a Mari9.