Hadji Murad - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557427232 ISBN 13: 9781557427236

Publisher: World Library Classics, 2009

Synopsis

Hadji Murad is a short novel written by Leo Tolstoy. It was Tolstoy's final work. The subject matter is one Hadji Murat, an Avar rebel commander who, for reasons of personal revenge, forges an uneasy alliance with the Russians he had been fighting.

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From the Inside Flap:

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 Murad, 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 Murad 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 Murad's death, set down this story with painstaking accuracy to preserve for future generations the horror, nobility, and destruction inherent in war.

From the Back Cover:

“[Tolstoy is the] greatest of all novelists.” —Virginia Woolf

About this edition

• Publisher: World Library Classics
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1557427232
• ISBN 13: 9781557427236
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120