The Greatest Short Stories  of Leo Tolstoy

The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy

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Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Jaico
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 376
ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-8495-031-4

Description

The seven parts into which this book is divided include the best known Tolstoy stories, God Sees the Truth, but Waits and A Prisoner in the Caucasus which Tolstoy himself considered as his best.

The foremost among the world's greatest story-writers, and the most distinguished personality in modern Russian literature, Leo Tolstoy is a household word the world over. The purpose of all true creative art, he believed, is to teach. But the message in all his stories is presented with such humor that the reader hardly realizes that is strongly didactic.

Other stories included in this volume are : How Much Land does a Man Want? depicting the greed of a peasant for land; the most brilliantly told parable. Ivan the Fool.

Contents

Preface

PART I
TALES FOR CHILDREN
1. God sees the Truth, But waits
2. A Prisoner in the Caucasus
3. The Bear-hunt

PART II
POPULAR STORIES
4. What men live by
5. A spark neglected burns the house
6. Two old men
7. Where Love is, God is

PART III
A FAIRY TALE
8. The Story of Ivan the fool

PART IV
STORIES WRITTEN TO PICTURES
9. Evil allures, But good endures
10. Little girls wiser than men
11. Elias

PART V
FOLD-TALES RETOLD
12. The three hermits
13. The Imp and the crust
14. How much land does a man need ?
15. A Grain as big as a hen's Egg
16. The Godson
17. The Repentant sinner
18. The empty drum

PART VI
ADAPTATIONS FROM THE FRENCH
19. The Coffee-House of Surat
20. Too Dear

PART VII
STORIES GIVEN TO AID THE PERSECUTED JEWS
21. Esarhaddon, King of Assyria
22. Work, Death and Sickness
23. Three Questions