Nikolai Ostrovsky - How steel was tempered. Gift book bound in leather.

"The most precious thing for a person is life. It is given to him once, and it must be lived in such a way that it is not excruciatingly painful for the aimlessly lived years" - perhaps one of the most famous literary quotes, and it came from the pen of Nikolai Ostrovsky.

"How Steel was Tempered" is an autobiographical novel written in 1932. The novel immediately gained huge popularity and became the most published work of Soviet literature.

This is a book about perseverance of character, determination, idealism and, most importantly, boundless faith in a bright future that is worth fighting for!