{"product_id":"the-cossacks-leo-tolstoy-9789391343095","title":"The Cossacks","description":"To read Tolstoy's early sketch, The Raid, and his first novel, The Cossacks, is to enter the workshop of a great writer and thinker. In The Raid Tolstoy explores the nature of courage itself, a theme central to War and Peace. In The Cossacks he sets forth all the motifs of his whole future life and his work. The hero is a young man-about-town who has squandered half his fortune - and his life - and retires to the desultory existence of a regiment stationed in mountainous Cossack country, where he takes part in the daily life of a Cossack village. But his love for the beautiful Maryanka precipitates a conflict between the belief that \"Happiness lies in living for others\" and a passion that sweeps self-abnegation aside. As Romain Roland says, \"The full force of Tolstoy's descriptive powers is already expressed in this splendid [novel] and Tolstoy's realism shows itself with equal force in depicting human nature.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leo Tolstoy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9391343090\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789391343095\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Insight Publica\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.43d","brand":"Leo Tolstoy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078040187135,"sku":"9789391343095","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a2e5b8f2-f6a4-44db-9cd2-2aa032ee1757.jpg?v=1685473204","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cossacks-leo-tolstoy-9789391343095","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}