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And Quiet Flows the Don
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1928 novel by Mikhail Sholokhov
Key facts
- Author
- Mikhail Sholokhov
- Original title
- Тихий Дон
- Translator
- Stephen Garry (1943/1950) , Robert Daglish (1950/1984)
- Language
- Russian
- Genre
- Historical novel
- Publisher
- Oktyabr (serial)
- Publication date
- 1928–1932; 1940
- Publication place
- Soviet Union
- Media type
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Mikhail Sholokhov
- Genre
- epic
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Narrative location
- Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
- Image
- Обложка Роман-газеты 1928 г.jpg
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- inception
- 1925-00-00
- language of work or name
- Russian
- last line
- Это было все, что осталось у него в жизни, что пока еще роднило его с землей и со всем этим огромным, сияющим под холодным солнцем миром.
- Commons category
- And Quiet Flows the Don
- title
- Тихий Дон
- publication date
- 1928-00-00
- set in period
- 20th century
- number of parts of this work
- 4
- form of creative work
- novel
- different from
- Quiet Flows the Don
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Encyclopedic overview
And Quiet Flows the Don (Quiet Flows the Don or The Silent Don, Russian: Тихий Дон, romanized: Tikhiy Don, lit. 'The Quiet Don') is a novel in four volumes by Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov. The first three volumes were written from 1925 to 1932 and published in the Soviet magazine Oktyabr in 1928–1932, and the fourth volume was finished in 1940.
The novel is considered one of the most significant works of literature in the 20th century. It depicts the lives and struggles of Don Cossacks during the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and Russian Civil War. In 1965, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel.
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