Hadji Murad Paperback – 29 Aug. 2017

This is quite a short story, but interesting to see how the meeting of two different cultures were portrayed by Tolstoy.

This novella shows all the signs of having been written as Tolstoy's health and powers were declining.

It gives you an idea of the long and deep and historic problems Russia has had with its colonies. Russian brutality in Chechnya in the past number of years and its installing of a puppet government is forecast in this Tolstoy story. There is nothing comparable in the work of British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, and Dutch writers about their former colonies. Nobody like Tolstoy.

Disappointed -text is misspelt, missing capital letters, translation clumsy, -I now need to buy another copy -very annoying.

Not an easy read but was tempted as it was a reference from one night in winter

This is so badly printed, it is unbelievable, having bought a few ‘Printed by Amazon’, I now know to avoid at all costs. The font size is so small the page numbers are 4 times larger! and there are gaps in pages all over the place so did they have to make the print so small. Taking works from the Public Domain And rendering them so unattractive is a new low. The covers are shoddy, at least they make you appreciate ‘real books’!

I've read Hadji Murad several times and bought this one so I could have a handy Kindle version. What a mistake. I'm hard pressed to see what value the publishers add here. I have never seen a published book with so many typos. If I had to guess they've taken the Project Gutenberg version and put it in a new font, not bothering to copy edit it at all. Then they charge £3.35 for a small novella. Ridiculous. If you want to have a Kindle version you can buy it in a Penguin anthology with the equally excellent The Cossacks and other Tolstoy short works for £2.47. A no brainer.

A dazzling posthumous story by the consummate master, not quite butchered by the terrible translation and the countless errors in the text. I cannot understand why this vital work has been treated with such little respect. Disgraceful