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While perhaps best known for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the Russian author and religious thinker Leo Tolstoy was also a prolific author of short fiction. This Standard Ebooks production compiles all of Tolstoy’s short stories and novellas written from 1852 up to his death, arranged in order of their original publication.
The stories in this collection vary enormously in size and scope, from short, page-length fables composed for the education of schoolchildren, to full novellas like “Family Happiness.” Readers who are familiar with Tolstoy’s life and religious experiences—as detailed, for example, in his spiritual memoir A Confession—may be able to trace the events of Tolstoy’s life through the changing subjects of these stories. Some early stories, like “The Raid” and the “Sevastopol” sketches, draw from Tolstoy’s experiences in the Caucasian War and the Crimean War when he served in the Imperial Russian Army, while other early stories like “Recollections of a Scorer” and “Two Hussars” reflect Tolstoy’s personal struggle with gambling addiction.
Later stories in the collection, written during and after Tolstoy’s 1870s conversion to Christian anarcho-pacifism (a spiritual and religious philosophy described in detail in his treatise The Kingdom of God is Within You), frequently reflect either Tolstoy’s own experiences in spiritual struggle (e.g. “The Death of Ivan Ilyitch”) or his interpretation of the New Testament (e.g. “The Forged Coupon”), or both. Many later stories, like “Three Questions” and “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” are explicitly didactic in nature and are addressed to a popular audience to promote his religious ideals and views on social and economic justice.
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This particular ebook is based on transcriptions produced for Project Gutenberg (A Russian Proprietor, The Complete Works of Count TolstĂły, Volume XII, Tolstoi for the Young, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, The Invaders and Other Stories, The Forged Coupon and Other Stories, Master and Man, Father Sergius and Three Days in the Village and Other Sketches), Wikisource (Family Happiness, Twenty-Three Tales, Diary of a Lunatic and The Devil) and the Patricia Clark Memorial Library (The Kreutzer Sonata), and on digital scans available at the Internet Archive (The Cossacks and Other Tales of the Caucasus, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Complete Works of Count TolstĂły, Volume XII, Tolstoi for the Young, Father Sergius, Master and Man and Other Tales, The Invaders and Other Stories, Ivan Ilych and Hadji Murad and Other Stories, Three Days in the Village and Other Sketches, The Overthrow of Hell and Its Restoration and Twenty-Three Tales) and the HathiTrust Digital Library (A Russian Proprietor, Sevastopol, The Death of Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories, In the Days of Serfdom and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. TolstoĂŻ, Volumes XV and XXI and The Forged Coupon and Other Stories) and Wikisource (Twenty-Three Tales).
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