Mikhail Sholokhov, Member of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Lenin and Nobel Prize winner. Author of:

Tales from the Don
And Quiet Flows the Don
Virgin Soil Upturned
They Thought for Their Country
The Fact of a Man

This book contains six of the stories with which Mikhail Sholokhov, who was later to write the world-famous And Quiet Flows the Don and Virgin Soil Upturned, began his writing career. They are based on the events of the Civil War and Sholokhov's own fighting experience. The stories "Alien Blood," "The Bastard," and "The Herdsman" have been adapted for the screen.