Sholokhov, Mikhail; (Translation from the Russian By Stephen Garry; Revised & Completed By Robert Daglish)

AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON : A Novel in Four Books

      Moscow, USSR: Foreign Languages Publishing House. Text of all 4 volumes/BRAND NEW. Brown boards to all volumes/Fine. Illustrated DJs/VG; uniform condition w/nips, chips & small losses to edges and surface rubs. Ribbon bookmarks. Book 1 frontispiece, author's photograph. Laid in: Key to Principle Characters. When the Crimean Khanate fell to the Turks (1478), the legendary, hard-riding Cossack warriors settled along river banks in the frontier lands of southern Russian and the Ukraine; they became known as Don, Volga, and Dneiper Cossacks and the like. Mikhail Sholokhov (1905 - ) is a Don Cossack. In his preface to the first English edition (1934) Sholokhov writes: "...I should be happy if in this description of the Don Cossacks, so unfamiliar to Europeans, the reader discerned something else --- those colossal changes in everyday habits, life and human psychology that have taken place as a result of the war and revolution." Preceding this monumental work is an old song: "...Our father, the quiet Don, blossoms with orphans/And the waves of the quiet Don are filled with fathers' and mothers' tears/Oh thou, our father the quiet Don!/Oh why does thou, our quiet Don, so sludgy flow?" The USSR now gone, Cossack groups are reasserting their identity in both Russian and Ukraine ... Sholokhov's voice stays and quiet flows the Don.. Unstated. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by O. Vereisky & Y. Kopylov (Designers).