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Tikhy Don

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“And Quiet Flows the Don”

In And Quiet Flows the Don
…first part of the novel Tikhy Don by Mikhail Sholokhov. The Russian novel was published between 1928 and 1940; the English translation of the first part appeared in 1934. The Don Flows Home to the Sea, part two of the original novel, was published in English translation in 1940.
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In Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
…he began his famous novel Tikhy Don (The Silent Don). Sholokhov’s work evolved slowly: it took him 12 years to publish Tikhy Don (4 vol., 1928–40; translated in two parts as And Quiet Flows the Don and The Don Flows Home to the Sea) and 28 years to complete another…
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