And Quiet Flows the Don
 

And Quiet Flows the Don

by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

This is volume 4 of a five volume set.
Sholokhov's book introduces the reader to a New World that is not merely the Don Region, but the world of the author's inimitably poetic prose; giving fifteen years of his life to the creation of And Quiet Flows the Don. He began the first book at the age of twenty, in 1926. The last was finished in 1940. While Leo Tolstoy?s novel War and Peace... (read more)

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It is one of the best novels that I read in my life. Talking about home, land, love, and humanity. Really it desired Nobel Prize.

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