And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov (Premium)

English translation (1934) by Stephen Garry. Penguin Classics, 2016

The other day, after several textual misadventures which I will mention in a footnote below, I finished Mikhail Sholokhov’s masterpiece And Quiet Flows the Don. This review will tie in with my series on the Russian Civil War, Revolution Under Siege, as the novel throws some sidelights on the things I wrote about there.

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