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Sholokhov, Mikhai; Garry, Stephen (trans.).
And Quiet Flows the Don.
Publisher: Putnam, London;
Date of Publication: 1934
Stock Code: 15072
Fifth edition in English, published the same year as the first, in seventh impression jacket. Octavo, pp., 755, [1]. Publisher’s original black buckram, titled in gilt to spine, in the original unclipped pictorial jacket. Toning to jacket, a few small nicks to head, of spine and upper panel. Cloth clean and gilt bright. Toning to edges, internally clean. A near-fine copy in like jacket. Very early edition in English of Sholokhov’s masterpiece, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965. Originally published in three books in the Soviet magazine Oktyabr between 1928-1932, this early English translation combines the first two books into a single volume. It was one of the earliest great works of Soviet literature to be translated into English. Regarded as one of the great novels of the twentieth-century, it was quickly compared to Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1867). As one contemporary review wrote ‘its colossal vitality covers the Russia of to-day as Tolstoi’s ‘War and Peace’ covered the Russia of a century ago.’ (Church, The Clarion). £85.00