Little Clothbound Classics, created by the talented Coralie Bickford-Smith, are seductive miniature collections of essays, novellas, and short tales by the greatest authors in history. Dmitry Andreich Olenin enlists in the army and travels to the Caucasus in the hopes of escaping the emptiness of his status. He will encounter the Cossacks there, who he believes to be in harmony with the land, among the foothills. He will hunt, drink, fall in love, and slowly learn that there is frequently a barrier between people and cultures that cannot be crossed while they are together. "What strikes us most in this novel is the richness of Tolstoy's genius.