Table of Contents

The Cossacks and Other StoriesChronology
Introduction
A Note on the Texts
Maps

The Cossacks
Sevastopol Stories
Sevastopol in December
Sevastopol in May
Sevastopol in August 1855
Hadji Murat

Notes
Glossary

About the Author

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) was a Russian novelist, social reformer, pacifist, and moral thinker. Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina; in


Paul Foote was, until his retirement, a University Lecturer in Russian and Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford.

David McDuff was educated at the University of Edinburgh and has translated a number of works for Penguin Classics, including Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.