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Title	:	And Quiet Flows the Don (And Quiet Flows the Don #1-4)
Author	:	Mikhail Sholokhov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1408 pages
Published	:	1996 by Dent (first published 1934)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Literature. Russian Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction

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And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Тихий Дон, lit. "The Quiet Don") is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The 1st three volumes were written from 1925 to '32 & published in the Soviet magazine October in 1928–32. The 4th volume was finished in 1940. The English translation of the 1st three volumes appeared under this title in 1934. The novel is considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature in the 20th century. It depicts the lives & struggles of Don Cossacks during WWI, the Russian Revolution & Russian Civil War. In 1965, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for this novel. The authorship of the novel is contested by some literary critics & historians, who believe it wasn't entirely written by Sholokhov.

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Original Title:	Тихий Дон
ISBN:	0460878905 (ISBN13: 9780460878906)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	And Quiet Flows the Don #1-4
Characters:	Grigore Pantelejevic Melehov, Aksinja Astahova, Natalija Mironovna
Literary Awards:	Сталинская премия for Художественная проза (первая степень) (1940)

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The most impressive novel that I have read. it is a masterpiece.

It was aight. Should not have been 554 pages...The first section ("Peace") held my attention because I had never read descriptions of the olde tyme Cossack lifestyle before. It was cool to see their daily life for a while (espicially as an ethnic and social group distinct from the surrounding mostly Russian peasantry). However in later sections the book dwelt heavily on the goings on of this village region. This is problematic for a few reasons. 1) we already got all that information in the

I initially thought reading this would take longer than a month, but somehow I managed to rock its Russian face. It's no secret that these Russian tomes can often be dense, filled with hundreds of characters (with a bunch of different names) doing things in highly detailed settings, where things like a blade of grass or a pebble in a river somehow manage to be a character themselves for fifty pages or so. Russian novels are dark and cold, just like the land from whence they came. Many of the

Fabulous reading...... and now for a rather, methinks, irreverent view via a Rupert Everett (smack in the puss) film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384712/Mea Culpa: see that line above re the film. NOPE! The film is more than my 'ickle heart could have imagined. Superb!If anyone should ask me what is the best ever book it would have to be this.A winter re-read is now top of the agenda.

How does one go about writing a review of ones favourite book of all? One runs the risk of making one of two errors: one might either ignore flaws, and praise too much, to the point of gushing; or, one might try and be too critical in an attempt to be even-handed, and thus sell the work short.Mikhail Sholokhovs Quiet Flows the Don (thats the complete and unabridged English edition of Tikhii Don, The Quiet Don in the original Russian) is not an easy book to read. Its not something for those who

The plot begins with the World War in a small village by the river Don. Grigori Melekhov lives there with his family that consists of his parents, sister and a married brother.Grigori is in a love affair with a married woman called Aksinia. Her husband Stephan is in the army. The traditional people didnt approve of their relationship and because of that Grigoris father, Panteley, arranges his son to be married to Natalya. She came from a rich family.Grigori married her but he wasnt happy. She

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