One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is a collection of three stories set in Cossack country, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of "And Quiet Flows the Don".
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people."