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Contains the stories:
The Two Old Men -
How Much Land Does a Man Need? - 4/5 - a Russian folk tale retold by Tolstoy in his later years during the Literary Realism Period, when he thought that all literature should have a moral lesson for the reader. James Joyce called it "the greatest story that the literature of the world knows" although that seems to be excessive praise.
The Forged Coupon -
Master and Workman -
Alyosha Pot -
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - 3/5 - an examination of death and the huma ...more
The Two Old Men -
How Much Land Does a Man Need? - 4/5 - a Russian folk tale retold by Tolstoy in his later years during the Literary Realism Period, when he thought that all literature should have a moral lesson for the reader. James Joyce called it "the greatest story that the literature of the world knows" although that seems to be excessive praise.
The Forged Coupon -
Master and Workman -
Alyosha Pot -
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - 3/5 - an examination of death and the huma ...more
This is the first book I have read of Toltstoy, and I have to say I love it. I think his genius lies with describing the fullness of human experience in all its complexity. From the different stages and trials of love in Family Happiness, to realizing your life has been worthless in the coarse of your terminal illness and the redemption in finding God in death in The Death of Ivan Ilych, to lust of one partner and the subsequent deadly jealous rage of the other in Kreutzer Sonata, to the downfal
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