Length7h 18m
About this audiobook
Olenin is an aimless young nobleman who is disenchanted with city life. Taking a post as a Cadet in the army, he finds himself assigned to the remote Cossack outpost in the Caucasus. It is here, among the Tatars, the Chechens, and the Old Believers, that he will fall in love with a beautiful Cossack girl. The only problem is that she is promised to a Cossack warrior.
In the setting of what is present-day Kazakhstan, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first is the dilemma of a young man who desires both fulfilling love and a place as a respected member of society. The other is the difficulty of a primitive society to accept domination by a higher culture that has no understanding of the traditions it asks its colonists to cast aside.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.9 (14.4K)
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length7 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJan 1, 2006
LanguageEnglish
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