“The most precious thing in a person is life. It is given to him only once, and he must live it in such a way that there is no agonizingly painful regret for the years lived in vain” — perhaps one of the most famous literary quotations, and it came from the pen of Nikolai Ostrovsky.
“[How the Steel Was Tempered]” is an autobiographical novel written in 1932. The novel immediately gained enormous popularity and became the most published work of Soviet literature.
This is a book about the resilience of character, determination, idealism, and—most of all—boundless faith in a bright future worth fighting for!