Michail Aleksandrovič Šolochov Libri

And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Тихий Дон, lit. "The Quiet Don") is a 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The first three volumes were written between 1925-32 and published in the Soviet magazine 'October'. The 4th volume was finished in 1940. The English translation of the first 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 the Don Cossacks during WWI, the Russian Revolution & 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.