Master and Man and Other Parables and Tales; (Everyman's Library #469)

TOLSTOY, Count Leo; [TOLSTOI, Leo]

ISBN 10: 0460004697 / ISBN 13: 9780460004695

Published by Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., London / New York, 1969

About this Item

A 1969 reprint edition of the 1910 issuance. A collection of nineteen short stories by the great Russian author and social reformer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). The title story is the longest, and also probably the best known. Most of the tales were written in the author's later years. With an introduction by Nikolay Andreyev. Everyman's Library catalogue no. 469. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 5. Full red cloth-look paper-covered boards with titling and "Everyman's Library" gilt-stamped on spine, dolphin-and-anchor device borrowed from Aldine Press in gilt at tail of spine; light blue endpapers. In yellow dust jacket variant with Mrs. Victoria Norrington drawing of a brutal winter storm scene to front panel. --- An about-Near Fine copy: bright, tightly-bound and unmarked, though with slightly splayed front board. Price-clipped jacket is in great shape, though with mild chafing to extremities, else intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xii, 320, 8 (ads) pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Master and Man and Other Parables and Tales; (Everyman's Library #469)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., London / New York
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0460004697
• ISBN 13: 9780460004695
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+

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Synopsis

The stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humor and compassion. The Two Hussars, inspired by his time in the army, 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 in the deeply moving Master and Man, a mercenary merchant travels with his unprotesting servant through a blizzard to close a business deal little realizing he may soon have to settle accounts with his maker.