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| Original Title: | Хаджи-Мурат |
| ISBN: | 1602060134 (ISBN13: 9781602060135) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Hadji Murád |
| Setting: | Chechnya,1851(Russian Federation) |
Leo Tolstoy
Paperback | Pages: 153 pages Rating: 3.84 | 8193 Users | 650 Reviews
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| Title | : | Hadji Murád |
| Author | : | Leo Tolstoy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 153 pages |
| Published | : | November 8th 2006 by Cosimo Classics (first published 1912) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature |
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In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murád, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months later, while attempting to rescue his family from Shamil’s prison, Hadji Murád was pursued by those he had betrayed and, after fighting the most heroic battle of his life, was killed.Tolstoy, witness to many of the events leading to Hadji Murád’s death, set down this story with painstaking accuracy to preserve for future generations the horror, nobility, and destruction inherent in war.
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Ratings: 3.84 From 8193 Users | 650 ReviewsArticle Out Of Books Hadji Murád
Maybe it's because this is the first Tolstoy book I have read, but I was not exactly impressed by this novella. The story in general seemed interesting, but while reading, the words just dragged on and on. It was a short read but it felt like it took forever. I don't know much about Russian history so many of the aspects were foreign to me, no pun intended. There were many names that were thrown at the reader, all of which sounded very much alike one another, and became confusing to keep trackLeo Tolstoy. Hadji Murad. 1911. Reviewed September 30th, 2009 by Frederick Glaysher.[return][return]I recently downloaded and read from Google Books Tolstoys novella Hadji Murad. Its one of the very last pieces of fiction he wrote, finishing it in 1904, published in 1911, the year of his death. The short novel of about 200 pages on an ereader has always been praised as an exquisitely crafted work of art. Tolstoy allows the structure and interplay of events to speak for themselves, eschewing
When considering Tolstoy it is hard to think beyond the long form, the novels that make his general reputation today such as War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Hadji Murat is from the other side of the spectrum, an astonishing piece of short fiction, a form that Tolstoy was also a master of. Hadji Murat was the last fiction that Tolstoy wrote and it was not published in his lifetime. In the Hesperus edition it runs to 123 pages but within those pages Tolstoy captures a world and the soul of a man.
Lovely story but I still fail to understand Hadji Murat's rationale for not just deserting in the night. He nullified his own mission...
This is the first novel I've read from Leo Tolstoy and I didn't even know this title existed until I saw it in the bookstore in St Peterbourg, Russia. I loved it. In this short book, the author describes the last weeks and months of Hadji Murad, a fearless great Chechen warrior having fought successfully against both the Russian army and fellow Chechen leader. The warrior's reputation is well known throughout the Russian army, Russia's high society and goes all the way to the Emperor Nicolas in
This is an amazing story; it's took me forever because I read it in Russian (with the help of the English translation). Tolstoy shows how the events effect every aspect of society, the Tsar, Chechens, officers and peasants.My favorite parts are the ones that follow Tsar Nikolai Pavlovich. The way Tolstoy describes his rule mirrors in many ways the horrific and ignorant ways of the Bush administration. This is my favorite passage so far, it's just teeming with beautiful sarcasm: "God, through His
As I made my way through this short book I told myself that I wasnt going to review it, that I just didnt have the mental or emotional energy. This is partly due to having written a lot of reviews this month, and partly due to what has happened recently in the world. I am not asking anyone to take pity on me, of course, but I feel horribly deflated right now, and I was wary of this filtering into my approach to Tolstoys work. But then I came towards the end of Hadji Murat, and I read about how
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