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And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov. And Quiet Flows the Don, or “The Silent Don”, is a novel in four volumes written by famous Russian novelist and writer Mikhail Sholokhov. The first three volumes were written from 1925 to 1932 and published in the Soviet magazine Oktyabr in 1928–1932, and the fourth volume was completed in 1940. The novel is recognized one of the most momentous works of world and Russian literature in the 20th century. It depicts the lives and struggles of Don Cossacks during the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and Russian Civil War. The important place of novel in the world of literature is evident that the author Mr. Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for this novel in 1965 and Stalin Prize. The novel has been compared to War and Peace, written by Leo Tolstoy, notably by Maxim Gorky. Like the Tolstoy novel, ‘And Quiet Flows the Don’ is an epic picture of Russian life during a time of crisis and examines it through political, mil...