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Rated 5 starsA Vital Prologue to War and Peace
For readers who enjoy War and Peace, The Sebastopol Sketches provides interesting insight not only in the military career of the author, Count Leo Tolstoy, but gives ample evidence of where he found the human experience to make such a classic novel. The book is set during the Crimean War in 1854-55, when Tolstoy was a 25-year-old artillery officer. A 31-page introduction by David McDuff lays out the background of Count Leo...
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Rated 5 starsTolstoy at War
The young Tolstoy took part in the defence of Sebastopol (1854-55) during the Crimean War, and these sketches (parts of which were written under fire) record his impressions of the drama and tumult of war. The first sketch, "Sebastopol in December" was published anonymously and attracted the attention of Tsar Alexander II and Turgenev. It is a short, emotionally patriotic piece recording the author's empathetic reaction to...
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Rated 5 starsa witness to many atrocities.
In 1855, Tolstoy was a soldier in the Crimean War and a witness to many atrocities. One that would stay with him was the image of two children killed in a shelling. His experiences during the war made up the contents of his work The Sebastopol Sketches, many of which he drafted on the battlefield.The book is divide in three short stories stem from Tolstoy's military experience during the Crimean War: "Sebastopol in December,"...
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Rated 5 starsThe Beginnings of a Great Writer
As a first work (one of the first), these sketches bear the identifying marks of a genius in the beginning of his career.What better place to start, and what more challenging scene, than the defeat of the Russians by the British and French at Sevestopol during the same war that brought us "The Charge of the light Brigade" from the other side.This is obviously written by a man who had been in War, and had experiences the...
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Rated 5 starsAfraid to embark on "War and Peace"? Try "Sevastopol" first
What can I say after this great previous review by a reader from Dayton, OH? It is true, in this book Tolstoy was a little bit obsessed about revealing the characters' vanity and feigned bravery, but he also did not conceal the other side of war experience: "He truly would have become a hero, if from P. he had gotten straight onto the bastions, but now he needed to go through a great deal of moral tribulations in order...
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