Short Fiction by Leo Tolstoy (book reader for pc TXT) π
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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 Tolstoyβs 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 βFamily Happiness.β Readers who are familiar with Tolstoyβs life and religious experiencesβas detailed, for example, in his spiritual memoir A Confessionβmay be able to trace the events of Tolstoyβs life through the changing subjects of these stories. Some early stories, like βThe Raidβ and the βSevastopolβ sketches, draw from Tolstoyβs experiences in the Caucasian War and the Crimean War when he served in the Imperial Russian Army, while other early stories like βRecollections of a Scorerβ and βTwo Hussarsβ reflect Tolstoyβs personal struggle with gambling addiction.
Later stories in the collection, written during and after Tolstoyβs 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 Tolstoyβs own experiences in spiritual struggle (e.g. βThe Death of Ivan Ilyitchβ) or his interpretation of the New Testament (e.g. βThe Forged Couponβ), or both. Many later stories, like βThree Questionsβ and βHow Much Land Does a Man Need?β 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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