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.

A tragic novel about the forbidden love of a married lady, Anna Karenina, and officer Vronsky. Set against the rigid 19th-century social norms, it explores passion, adultery, family values, and spiritual search in Russian society.