Twenty Three Tales

By Tolstoy, Leo

Book Id: WPLBN0000659805
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Twenty Three Tales
Author:	Tolstoy, Leo
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
Collections:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


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Excerpt
Excerpt: This volume is divided into seven parts. First we have Tales for Children, published about the year 1872, and reminding us of the time when Tolstoy was absorbed in efforts to educate the peasant children. This section of the book contains the two stories which of all that he has written Tolstoy likes best. In What is Art? he claims no place among examples of good art for any of his own productions ?except for the story God sees the Truth, but Waits, which seeks a place in the first class (religious art), and A Prisoner in the Caucasus, which belongs to the second (universal art).? In the first of these the subject (a favourite one with Tolstoy) is the forgiveness of injuries. The second deals with the simplest feelings common to all men: fear and courage, pity, endurance, &c.? expressed with that individuality, clearness, and sincerity, which Tolstoy says are the signs of true art.

Table of Contents
Contents PREFACE....3 GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS ....5 A PRISONER IN THE CAUCASUS ....13 THE BEAR-HUNT ....40 WHAT MEN LIVE BY ....49 A SPARK NEGLECTED ....71 TWO OLD MEN ....86 WHERE LOVE IS, ....109 THE STORY OF IV?N THE FOOL, .....122 EVIL ALLURES, BUT GOOD ENDURES ....149 LITTLE GIRLS WISER THAN MEN ....152 ILY?S....154 PART V ....159 FOLK-TALES ....159 THE THREE HERMITS ....159 THE IMP AND THE CRUST ....166 HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED? ....169 A GRAIN AS BIG AS A HEN?S EGG ....185 THE GODSON ....188 THE REPENTANT SINNER ....206 THE EMPTY DRUM ....209 THE COFFEE-HOUSE OF SURAT ....217 TOO DEAR! ....225 ESARHADDON, KING OF ASSYRIA ....230 WORK, DEATH AND SICKNESS ....236 THREE QUESTIONS ....238