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    <body><![CDATA[An absolute masterpiece by Tolstoy, and a less intimidating work than the later, monstrously long novels he is better known for. Dmitri Olenin is a young man who has ruined himself through gambling and scandalous love affairs, so he buys a commission in the Russian army and gets sent to the the Cauc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21190407">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[it's a cool tolstoy. by cool, i mean &quot;short&quot;. hahaha... talking about tolstoy, i bet you can't help quoting the pillow-thick books anna karenina and war and peace. yeah, you're right buddies. <br/><br/>and this time, when i read the cossack, i feel somewhat relieved with the chance to re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13026745">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful.  Absolutely beautiful.  With this novel, Tolstoy finally matured as an author.  With Childhood, Adolescence and Youth as well as The Sevastapol Sketches, he was still awkward and didactic.  In the former, Tolstoy assuredly makes claims to the nature of love.  In The Cossacks, Tolstoy dive...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7845113">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Cossacks was pretty good.  Not nearly as in depth or long as Anna Karenina, but an interesting story.  I would recommend this book to anyone that just wants a taste of Leo Tolstoy.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Arg, Tolstoy is a cad! Horrible book, horrible ending. I think I'm going to give up on him unless this book was an aberration. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Affluent, aimless 20 something goes to find himself among the Cossacks, characterized in the noble savage tradition. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A Slavic warrior caste known throughout Russia, Ukraine and Northern Mongolia. The name Cossack probably originates from Turkic, &quot;Kazakh&quot; meaning either &quot;horseman&quot; or &quot;free man&quot; (i.e. not a serf or noble) depending on context. Both definitions hold true, as Cossack warr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15120504">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[James Byrd Jr did not drag this bad....<br/>Too soon?<br/>Well it was seriously that terrible.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Better than I thought an army story would be!  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not the way you want to read Tolstoy.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Tolstoy. The story is one of a restless aristocrat wanting to leave his world behind in Moscow and join the army in the Caucus. He enters a village of Cossacks and proceeds to fall in love with one of the young women in the village.<br/><br/>The description of the Cossacks and th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28999770">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[an observant insightful romantic look into the cossacks, mountain people, about passion and searching for a meaning to life.. about lives of tribes on two slopes of a mountain and reveals how muslim and christian groups, though in dispute, were so closely effected by each other lives, languages, cus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26130001">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[salah satu Tolstoy &quot;tertipis&quot; selain <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6663870-pembunuh-isteri">Pembunuh Istri</a>, terbitan Moskow, tanpa tahun, tapi kuduga pasti sekitar akhir 50-an dan awal 60-an saat banyak buku terbitan Foreign Language Publishing masuk ke Indonesia. Desain cover dan tata letaknya sangat impresif<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75639644">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Man, that was a great book.]]></body>
    
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