Part Two Of Two Parts THE DON FLOWS HOME TO THE SEA continues the story begun in AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON. It begins with the period immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and carries on through the end of the Civil War in 1921. It follows the fortunes of a group of Cossacks and their women—torn between the intense individualism of their Cossack background and the socialism of the new society. Russia's most popular writer, Mikhail Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965. "As massive and as violent, and perhaps as mad as Russian itself...Sholokhov is considered by all odds the finest writer Russia has had since the revolution." (Dallas News)

Sholokhov's book introduces the reader to a New World that is not merely the Don Region, but the world of the author's inimitably poetic prose; giving fifteen years of his life to the creation of "And Quiet Flows the Don." He began the first book at the age of twenty, in 1926. The last was finished in 1940. While Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" (1863-69) immortalized the Napoleonic campaigns to the eve of the Decembrist revolt, "And Quiet Flows the Don" showed the destruction of the Cossacks and the birth of a new society. "The Don Flows Home to the Sea," part two of the original novel, describes the effect of World War I, the revolution, and the civil war on the lives of the Don Cossacks.

Роман-эпопея в четырех томах. Тома 1—3 написаны с 1925 по 1932 год, опубликованы в журнале «Октябрь» в 1928—1932 гг. Том 4 закончен в 1940 году, опубликован в журнале «Новый мир» в 1937—1940 году. Одно из наиболее значительных произведений русской литературы XX века, рисующее широкую панораму жизни донского казачества во время Первой мировой войны, революционных событий 1917 года и гражданской войны в России.

Čitavo stvaralaštvo Mihaila Šolohova vezano je za Don, slavni i legendarni zavičaj donskog kozaštva, a ovo veličanstveno delo autor je stvarao 14 godina. Tihi Don je jedno od najpoznatijih svetskih literarnih dela, koje svojim veličanstvenim realizmom čitaocima donosi sliku neponovljivog karaktera kozaka. Remek-delo koje svojom veličinom verovatno premašuje većinu najpoznatijih svetskih književnih dostignuća.

«Тихий Дон» – это грандиозный роман, принесший ее автору – русскому писателю Михаилу Шолохову – мировую известность; это масштабная эпопея, повествующая о трагических событиях в истории России, о человеческих судьбах, искалеченных братоубийственной бойней, о любви, прошедшей все испытания. Трудно найти в русской литературе произведение, равное «Тихому Дону» по уровню осмысления действительности и свободе повествования.