DislikedI found the characters and particularly the principal character to be quite insufferable and belabored in its themes and concerns and implausible at times. Yeah, it's it's probably my least favorite of Tolstoy's longer works.
Cossacks (1887)
Creators: Mixed The Cossacks (Russian: Казаки [Kazaki]) is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. It was originally called Young Manhood. Both Ivan Turgenev and the Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin gave the work great praise, with Turgenev calling it his favourite work by Tolstoy. Tolstoy began work on the story in August 1853. In August 1857, after having reread the Iliad, he vowed to completely rewrite The Cossacks. In February 1862, after having lost badly at cards he finished the novel to help pay his debts. The novel was published in 1863, the same year his first child was born. Source: Wikipedia
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Mixedthe Cossacks was one of the Tolstoy short stories that I enjoyed more than the other ones I read but I think at the end of the day it's probably gonna have to go into the Killian Murphy category because there were some really beautiful lines about mountains
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Likedso yes so I am about a little more than a halfway through the cos x and I'm really enjoying it so far but I do have to finish it before this Saturday
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