And Quiet Flows the Don

And Quiet Flows the Don
Title And Quiet Flows the Don PDF eBook
Author Михаил Александрович Шолохов
Publisher
Total Pages 698
Release 1999
Genre Soviet Union
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AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON (NEW RUSSIAN CLASSIC) BY MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV

AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON (NEW RUSSIAN CLASSIC) BY MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV
Title AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON (NEW RUSSIAN CLASSIC) BY MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV PDF eBook
Author MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV
Publisher BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Total Pages 615
Release 2022-01-09
Genre Fiction
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AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV (ILLUSTRATED) From The Author Of Books Like : The Fate of a Man and Early Stories Судьба Человека The Don Flows Home to the Sea The Don Flows Home to the Sea, Vol 2 Virgin Soil Upturned Virgin Soil Upturned, Book 2 Tales of the Don They Fought for Their Country Тихий Дон. Том I Они сражались за Родину. Судьба человека Тихий Дон. Том II Hiljaa virtaa Don I-III Донские рассказы. Судьба человека Родинка Early Stories Наука ненависти. Судьба человека Den azurblå stäppen De stille Don, band 1 [De stille Don & Storm over Rusland] Нахаленок ABOUT THE BOOK : 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. The authorship of the novel is contested by some literary critics & historians, who believe it wasn't entirely written by Sholokhov. However, following the discovery of the manuscript, the consensus is that the work is, in fact, Sholokhov’s. ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984) was born in the land of the Cossacks, now known as the Kamenskaya region of the R.S.F.S.R. He attended several high schools until 1918. During the civil war he fought on the side of the revolutionaries, and in 1922 he moved to Moscow to become a journalist. There he published a number of short stories in newspapers. He made his literary debut in 1926 with a volume of stories, Donskie rasskazy (Tales from the Don), 1926, about the Cossacks of his native region, to which he had returned two years earlier. In the same year, 1926, Sholokhov began writing Tikhi Don (And Quiet Flows the Don), 1928-1940, which matured slowly and took him fourteen years to complete. Reminiscent of Tolstoy in its vividly realistic scenes, its stark character descriptions and, above all, its vast panorama of the revolutionary period, Sholokhov’s epic became the most read work of Soviet fiction. Deeply interested in human destinies which are played against the background of the transformations and troubles in Russia, he unites in his work the artistic heritage of Tolstoy and Gogol with a new vision introduced into Russian literature by Maxim Gorky. His other major work in the Don cycle, Podnyataya tselina (Virgin Soil Upturned), 1932 and 1959, deals in part with the collectivization of the Don area. There are a number of works such as the short story Sudba cheloveka (The Fate of a Man), 1957 – made into a popular Russian film – which treat the power and the resilience of human love under adversity. His collected works, Sobranie sochineny, were published in eight volumes between 1956 and 1960. In 1932 Sholokhov joined the Communist Party and, on several occasions, has been a delegate to the Supreme Soviets. In 1939 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and later vice president of the Association of Soviet Writers. AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV (ILLUSTRATED)

Stalin's Scribe

Stalin's Scribe
Title Stalin's Scribe PDF eBook
Author Brian Boeck
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Total Pages 336
Release 2019-02-05
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1681779390

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A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature. Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in literature in history. As a young man, Sholokhov’s epic novel, Quiet Don, became an unprecedented overnight success. Stalin’s Scribe is the first biography of a man who was once one of the Soviet Union’s most prominent political figures. Thanks to the opening of Russia’s archives, Brian Boeck discovers that Sholokhov’s official Soviet biography is actually a tangled web of legends, half-truths, and contradictions. Boeck examines the complex connection between an author and a dictator, revealing how a Stalinist courtier became an ideological acrobat and consummate politician in order to stay in favor and remain relevant after the dictator’s death. Stalin's Scribe is remarkable biography that both reinforces and clashes with our understanding of the Soviet system. It reveals a Sholokhov who is bold, uncompromising, and sympathetic—and reconciles him with the vindictive and mean-spirited man described in so many accounts of late Soviet history. Shockingly, at the height of the terror, which claimed over a million lives, Sholokhov became a member of the most minuscule subset of the Soviet Union’s population—the handful of individuals whom Stalin personally intervened to save.

Quiet Flows the Una

Quiet Flows the Una
Title Quiet Flows the Una PDF eBook
Author Faruk Šehić
Publisher
Total Pages 0
Release 2016
Genre Bosnia and Herzegovina
ISBN 9781908236494

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Quiet Flows the Una is the story a man trying to overcome the personal trauma caused by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The book covers three time periods, taking in the hero's childhood before the war, the battle lines during the war, and his attempt to continue with normal life in a post-conflict society. Through his meditative prose, Sehic attempts to reconstruct the life of a man who is bipolar in nature; being both a veteran and a poet. At times, he manages to pick up the pieces of his life, but at other times it escapes him. His memories of the recent war and the killings are dirty and disgusting, while he views his present as humdrum and his identity feels incomplete. With the help of his memories, he uses his mind and strength to look for a way out of the maze in which he is confined, acting as both archivist and chronicler of the past - roles that allow him the opportunity to rebuild everything again. In parallel to this story, the book's passages on the city next to the river Una take on mythical and dreamlike dimensions. Here, the novel expands into a poetic description of nature, seasons, flora and fauna, as well as childhood memories not yet tainted by all that will happen after 1992. The book is dedicated to people who believe in the power and beauty of life in the face of death and mass destruction.

And Quiet Flows the Don

And Quiet Flows the Don
Title And Quiet Flows the Don PDF eBook
Author Mikhail Sholokhov
Publisher Vintage
Total Pages 571
Release 1989-12-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0679725210

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WINNER OF NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 1965 WINNER OF THE STALIN PRIZE, 1941 Mikhail Sholokhov’s groundbreaking epic novel gives a sweeping depiction of Russian life and culture in the early 20th century. In the same vein as War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, And Quiet Flows the Don gives readers a glimpse into many aspects of Russian culture, and the choices a country makes when faced with war and destruction. In his enormous epic of Cossack life during the Revolution...Mikhail Sholokhov has achieved even greater power, sustained narrative gift and stirring human truthfulness.”—New York Times “In addition to its panoramic grandeur, the wealth of its characters and its historic realism, Sholokhov's book is memorable for its portrayal of the primitive and already almost legendary life of the Don Cossacks.”—Malcolm Cowley, New Republic

The Quiet Don

The Quiet Don
Title The Quiet Don PDF eBook
Author Matt Birkbeck
Publisher Penguin
Total Pages 304
Release 2013-10-01
Genre True Crime
ISBN 1101618264

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To what extent was Rosario “Russell” Bufalino involved in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975? In the CIA’s recruitment of gangsters to assassinate Fidel Castro? In organizing the historic meeting of crime chieftains in 1957? Even in the production of The Godfather movie? A uniquely American saga that spans six decades, The Quiet Don follows Russell Bufalino’s remarkably quiet ascent from Sicilian immigrant to mob soldier to a man described by a United States Senate subcommittee in 1964 as “one of the most ruthless and powerful leaders of the Mafia in the United States.” Secretive—even reclusive—Russell Bufalino quietly built his organized crime empire in the decades between Prohibition and the Carter presidency. His reach extended far beyond the coal country of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and quaint Amish farms near Lancaster. Bufalino had a hand in global, national, and local politics of the largest American cities, many of its major industries, and controlled the powerful Teamsters Union. His influence also reached the highest levels of Pennsylvania government and halls of Congress, and his legacy left a culture of corruption that continues to this day. INCLUDES PHOTOS

The Angst-ridden Executive

The Angst-ridden Executive
Title The Angst-ridden Executive PDF eBook
Author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Publisher Melville House
Total Pages 242
Release 2011
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1612190383

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They met on a plane, back when Pepe Carvalho was still with the CIA, and had a pleasant, forgettable conversation. Years later, a woman shows up in Pepe's office in Barcelona to say that Pepe's seatmate, the industrialist Antonio Jauma, was her husband, and he's been murdered. The police say Jauma was a 'womanizer' and he was murdered buy a pimp. Pepe discovers that Jauma was a womanizer--in "the least pleasant sense", as an associate informs him, but he decides the police are wrong anyway, and goes at the case with his normal, phlegmatic doggedness-that is, with time out for a signature philosophical book-burning or two(Sarte, Sholokhov), cooking a grand meal or two(leek soup, freshly caught steamed turbot, discussing democracy, fascism, and communism with his assistant, and relaxing with his girlfriend Charo, whose last name he can't remember. At least, until he discovers that his own life is in danger for not accepting the official version of Jauma's death.