Book description
In this masterly collection of tales set among the farming villages and steppes of Southern Russia, Mikhail Sholokhov movingly and compassionately portrays the death-agonies of the Old Russia and the bloody birthpangs of the New. He recreates for his reader the world he has made familiar in his masterpieces And Quiet Flows the Don and The Don Flows Home to the Sea.
CONTENTS:
1. The Birthmark
2. The Herdsman
3. Shibalok’s Family
4. The Food Commissar
5. The Chairman of the Republic Revolutionary Military Soviet
6. The Watchman in the Vegetable Plots
7. The Family Man
8. The Shame-Child
9. The Diehard
10. The Way and the Road
11. The Foal
12. The Azure Steppe
13. Alien Blood
14. A Mortal Enemy
15. The Farm Labourers
16. Dry Rot
