The first two volumes of Sholokhov's epic masterpiece. A sweeping chronicle of Don Cossack life during historic upheavals. The intense love story of Grigory and Aksinya unfolds alongside family dramas, World War I, and the brewing revolution of 1917.

Leo Tolstoy's classic novel follows Prince Nekhludoff's spiritual awakening as he seeks redemption for ruining the life of Katusha Maslova. The story exposes the injustice of the nineteenth-century Russian legal, penal, and ecclesiastical systems.