The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9388810449 ISBN 13: 9789388810449

Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. With a career spanning almost half a century, Leo Tolstoy penned down some of the worlds greatest and most celebrated works. This edition brings for you his thirty-five best short stories ranging from stories for children, stories for the people, and Russian folk tales to his adaptations from French stories and the ones written for the Jewish pogrom victims in Russia. It includes The Snowstorm (1856), Polikushka (1863), The Prisoner of the Caucasus (1872), Where Love is, There God is Also (1885), Two Old Men (1885), Ivan the Fool (1885), Kholstomír (1885), The Imp and The Crust (1886), The Coffee House of Surat (1893), Master and Man (1895), Father Sergius, Work, Death and Sickness, After the Dance, and Alyosha the Pot (1911), among his other masterpieces. An editorial note precedes each work.

About this title

About the Author:

Count Leo Tolstoy (18281910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world fame.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 9388810449
• ISBN 13: 9789388810449
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640