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Discounts: Include Coupons Include Offers member of ISBN The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five Inspired by his experiences in the army, 'The Two Hussars' contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoy's belief that art must serve a moral purpose, 'What Men Live By' portrays an angel sent to earth to learn three existential rules of life, and 'Two Old Men' shows a peasant abandoning his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in order to help his neighbours.
And in the highly moving 'Master and Man', Tolstoy depicts a mercenary merchant travelling with his unprotesting servant through a blizzard to. Master and Man and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) [Leo Tolstoy, Ronald Wilks , Paul Foote] on giuliettasprint.konfer.eu *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The ten.
And in the highly moving 'Master and Man', Tolstoy depicts a mercenary merchant travelling with his unprotesting servant through a blizzard to close a business deal - little realizing he may soon have to settle accounts with his maker. All these works are characterized by freshness and an almost biblical simplicity. About the Author Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia in He studied Oriental languages and law although failed to earn a degree in the latter at the University of Kazan, and after a dissolute youth eventually joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus in He took part in the Crimean War, and the Sebastopol Sketches that emerged from it established his reputation.
After living for some time in St Petersburg and abroad, he married Sophie Behrs in and they had thirteen children.
The happiness this brought him gave him the creative impulse for his two greatest novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina Later in life his views became increasingly radical as he gave up his possessions to live a simple peasant life. After a quarrel with his wife he fled home secretly one night to seek refuge in a monastery. He became ill during this dramatic flight and died at the small railway station of Astapovo in Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is best known for his two longest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, which are commonly regarded as among the finest novels ever written.
War and Peace in particular seems virtually to define this form for many readers and critics. Among Tolstoy's shorter works, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is usually classed among the best examples of the novella. Especially during his last three decades Tolstoy also achieved world renown as a moral and religious teacher. His doctrine of nonresistance to evil had an important influence on Gandhi.
Although Tolstoy's religious ideas no longer command the respect they once did, interest in his life and personality has, if anything, increased over the years. Most readers will agree with the assessment of the 19th-century British poet and critic Matthew Arnold that a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life; the 20th-century Russian author Isaak Babel commented that, if the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.
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