Product Description <br/>A beautiful narrative, The Cossacks reveals a story about soldiers deployed at frontiers of Russia in the nineteenth century. Tolstoy skilfully presents circumstances of a young Russian combatant who falls in love with a Cossack girl, about to wed a local man. This novel is a superb blend of love and adventure expressing varying sentiments and feelings in a delicate manner. Engrossing!<br/> About the Author <br/>Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher noted for his ideas of nonviolent resistance. His diary reveals an incessant pursuit of a morally justified life. He was known for his generosity to the peasants.His best known novels are War and Peace (1869), which Tolstoy regarded as an epic rather than a novel, and Anna Karenina (1877). His work was admired in his time by Dostoyevsky, Checkov, Turgenev, and Flaubert, and later by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.