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Excerpt from A Landed Proprietor, The Cossacks, Sevastopol I feel myself capable of being a good landed propri etor and, in order to be one, as I understand this word, one needs neither a university diploma, nor ranks, which you are so anxious I should obtain. Dear aunty, make no ambitious plans for me! Accustom yourself to the thought that I have chosen an entirely different path, which is, nevertheless, good, and which, I feel, will bring m...

Excerpt from A Landed Proprietor, The Cossacks, SevastopolDear auntyz - I have made a resolution on which the fate Of my whole life must depend. I will leave the university in order to devote myself to country life, be cause I feel that I was born for it. For God's sake, dear aunty, do not laugh at me! You will say that I am young, and, indeed, I may still be a child, but this does not prevent me from feeling what my calling is, and from wishi...

The Man Who Was Dead, The Cause of it All, and The Light That Shines in the Darkness are the three plays left by Tolstoy for publication after his death. The Light That Shines in the Darkness -- the last of Tolstoy's plays, was left unfinished. In Russia it is prohibited on account of its allusions to the refusal of military service. Yet it is in some ways the most interesting of Tolstoy's posthumous works. It is obviously not strictly autobio...

Of the three plays left by Tolstoy for publication after his death, one is a short two-act Temperance play called in English The Cause of it All (the Russian title is a colloquialism difficult to render, but "From it all evil flows" is as near as one can get to it). It does not claim to be a piece of much importance, but if ever it is staged, it should act easily and well. Another of these posthumous plays is The Man Who Was Dead (The Live Cor...

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CONTENTS:LifeGod's WorkForm and ExistenceThe Offences of the Undertakings of LifeRelation to TruthLife and MetaphysicsDoubtDissatisfactionDisagreementsProselytismOwnershipFamily RelationsVaria

Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that would come to fruition in his later masterpieces. Chronicling the experiences of a wealthy landowner's son as he grows up and becomes aware of the world and his place in it, these three short novels were only loosely inspired by Tolstoy's own memories. In...

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadOften called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy's genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle-all of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination...

Originally published in 1886, this was one of Tolstoy's several religious and moral works in that period of his life.

CONTENTSHow the Devil Redeemed the Crust of BreadThe Repentant SinnerThe Kernel of the Size of a Hen's EggHow Much Land a Man NeedsThe GodsonThree SonsLabourer Emelyán and the Empty Drum

Six of the narratives included in the present volume are representative of Count Tolstoy's literary activity in the years 1856, 1857, and 1859, the first, which gives the volume its name, is of earlier date, having been written in 1852, the same year as "Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth."Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is best known for his two longest ...