Äåòàëüíàÿ èíôîðìàöèÿ îá èçäàíèè

And Quiet Flows the Don is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The 1st three volumes were written from 1925 to 1932 and published in the Soviet magazine October in 1928—32. The 4th volume was finished in 1940. The English translation of the 1st three volumes appeared under this title in 1934. The novel is considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature in the 20th century. It depicts the lives and struggles of Don Cossacks during WWI, the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War. In 1965, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for this novel. The authorship of the novel is contested by some literary critics and historians, who believe it wasn t entirely written by Sholokhov.