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The Fate of a Man and Early Stories

The Fate of a Man and Early Stories Mikhail Sholokhov Raduga Publishers Moscow, 1989 Illustrated by Boris Alimov Designed by Pavel Nikiporets Printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Contents Early Stories The Birth-Mark [ Translated by Robert Daglish] 9 The Herdsman [ Translated by Robert Daglish] 22 The Getling [ Translated by Yelena Altshuler] 38 Golden Steppe [ Translated by Robert Daglish] 75 The Foal [ Translated by Yelena Altshuler ] 89 A Different Breed [ Translated by Robert Daglish] 100 The Fate of a Man [ Translated by Robert Daglish] 127 — Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1984) is one of the outstanding novelists of our age. His major works are the four-volume novel Quiet Flows the Don , and the novels Virgin Soil Upturned and They Fought for Their Country . Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965. Sholokhov’s cycle of Don Stories (1924-1926) tells of the years of the Civil War in Russia, on the Don in particular, and of the break-up of the old way of life in the countryside wrought by the Revolution. These stories include such works as The Getling, The Herdsman, The Foal and A Different Breed . The present collection also includes The Fate of a Ma

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