A review by bailey_bea
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy

4.0

"The people here exist as nature does. They die, they are born, they copulate, again they are born, they fight, eat, drink, rejoice, and again die, without any terms except for the unchanging terms that nature imposes on sun, grass, beast, and tree. They have no other laws."

The Cossacks is beautifully written and appropriately short.