The Quiet Don River in Six Volumes (humanities Classic Library)
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"Quiet Don" shows the suffering of the Cossacks in the Don River region, a unique group of Russian society from 1912 to 1922, in the First World War, the February Revolution, the October Revolution, and the Civil War. The protagonist, Grigory, is a Cossack who grew up on the banks of the Don River. He wavers between his wife Natalia and his lover Aksinia, and wanders between revolution and counter-revolution. He is both a hero and a victim. He possesses all the good qualities of a Cossack - bravery, integrity, and fearlessness of rape. At the same time, Grigory also carries Cossacks' various prejudices and limitations. At the juncture of rapid historical changes, he wanders at the crossroads of life. "Quiet Don" is an epic of people's lives describing an era of great historical significance. The translation by translator Jin Ren retains the roughness and poetry of the Cossack folk language in Sholokhov's original work, and the wording is precise and full of local flavor. Through concise and powerful Chinese short sentences, he restored the vastness of the Don River grassland and the vividness of the characters' dialogue.
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