The Don Flows Home to the Sea

The Don Flows Home to the Sea

Infobox Book |
name = The Don Flows Home to the Sea
title_orig = Tikhii Don (part 2)
translator =


image_caption =
author = Mikhail Sholokhov
illustrator =
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country = USSR
language = Russian
series =
subject =
genre = Novel
publisher =
release_date = 1928 and 1940 (in serial) & 1940 (this volume in book form)
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages =
isbn = NA
preceded_by = And Quiet Flows the Don
followed_by =

"The Don Flows Home to the Sea" (1940) is the next in the series of the great Don epic ("Tikhii Don") written by Mikhail Sholokhov. It originally appeared in serialized form between 1928 and 1940. The English translation of the second half of this monumental work appeared under this title in 1940.

The novel follows the fortunes of the Don Cossacks in peace and war, revolution and civil war. The novel depicts the destruction of Cossack society during the Civil War. Grigory Melekhov, is the protagonist. The book tells of his tragic affair with Aksinia, the wife of a neighbour; and how he fights for the Reds, the Whites and the Partisans.

Much of the novel used an earlier, unpublished story Sholokhov wrote in 1925 about the Kornilov putsch. [http://next.feb-web.ru/feb/sholokh/critics/ksp/ksp-001b.htm?cmd=2&part=2#Часть_1.Глава_2.ДОНЩИНА" «— Я начал, <...> с описания корниловщины, с нынешнего второго тома “Тихого Дона”, и написал изрядные куски. Потом увидел, что начинать надо не с этого, и отложил рукопись. Приступил заново и начал с казачьей старины, написал три части романа, которые и составляют первый том “Тихого Дона”. А когда первый том был закончен и надо было писать дальше — Петроград, корниловщину — я вернулся к прежней рукописи и использовал ее для второго тома. Жалко было бросать уже сделанную работу»]

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*cite web | title=The Don Flows Again | Work=N Y Times - Bookend | url=http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/25/bookend/bookend.html | last=Scammell | first=Michael | accessdate=2006-09-05


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