Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible mini editions of short stories novellas and essays
from the world's greatest writers designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Dmitry
Andreich Olenin in the hope of escaping the hollowness of his privilege joins the army and
heads to the Caucasus. There among the foothills he will meet the Cossacks: a people he
considers to be at one with the land. In their company he will hunt he will drink he will
fall in love and slowly he will begin to understand that between people between cultures
there is often a space that cannot be traversed... 'It is the richness of Tolstoy's genius that
strikes us most in this story' Virginia Woolf
