Master And Man in Never too Late to Read Classics

Oct 30, 2019 Chrissie rated it liked it

Shelves: audible-uk, philo-psychol, classics, russia, shorts, 2019-read

A story I like by Leo Tolstoy—YAY!!!!

This is exciting and well told. A Russian landowner and his peasant servant are caught out in a blizzard. The horse, the poor horse, is freezing too. You feel the wind and the cold as they do.

This IS a story by Tolstoy, and so of course it also has a moral. It speaks of avarice and the happiness achieved by helping others. This even I could swallow. The exciting story makes it less of a lecture.

I like how the peasant is drawn--his intelligence and kindness t ...more

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Sep 15, 2015 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: gutenberg, novellas, fiction-19th-century, kindle, e-books, russian-fiction, read-2015

Free download available at Project Gutenberg.

Opening lines:
It happened in the 'seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas's Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and had also to entertain his relatives and friends at home.

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Sep 21, 2017 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics

The Russians intrigue me and their books and stories always leave me thinking. Tolstoy is brilliant and generous -- he gave me one of my favorite books of all time, Anna Karenina, and now he gave me this thought-provoking and very deep short story. I am blown away by the proposals he makes in his stories, and by his ability to express truth. I am left in a place where I have no words to review it. I can only say that this one is a STRONG 4 STARS leaning towards 5.

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