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| Title | And quiet flows the Don |
| Author | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov |
| Translated by | Stephen Garry |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Knopf, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Mar 10, 2008 |
| Length | 554 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / War & Military History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union Literary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union Soviet Union World War, 1914-1918 |
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