Twenty-Three Tales

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy · Leo Tolstoy

nov 2007 · Cosimo, Inc.

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Twenty-three Tales is a masterful collection of children's tales, fairy tales, and short stories from one of the world's greatest and most influential writers. The collection includes: . "God Sees the Truth, but Waits" . "A Prisoner in the Caucasus" . "The Bear-Hunt" . "What Men Live By" . "A Spark Neglected Burns the House" . "Two Old Men" . "Where Love Is, God Is" . "The Story of Ivan the Fool" . "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" . "Little Girls Wiser Than Men" . "Ilys" . "The Three Hermits" . "The Imp and The Crust" . "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" . "A Grain As Big As A Hen's Egg" . "The Godson" . "The Repentant Sinner" . "The Empty Drum" . "The Coffee-house of Surat" . "Too Dear!" . "Esarhaddon, King of Assyria" . "Work, Death and Sickness, A Legend" . "Three Questions" Russian writer COUNT LEV ("LEO") NIKOLAYEVICH TOLSTOY (1828-1910) is best known for his novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).

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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828 in Russia. He is usually referred to as Leo Tolstoy. He was a Russian author who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Leo Tolstoy is best known for his novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays. Tolstoy had a profound moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870's which he outlined in his work, A Confession. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas of nonviolent resistance which he shared in his works The Kingdom of God is Within You, had a profund impact on figures such as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. On September 23, 1862 Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs. She was the daughter of a court physician. They had 13 children, eight of whom survived childhood. Their early married life allowed Tolstoy much freedom to compose War and Peace and Anna Karenina with his wife acting as his secretary and proofreader. The Tolstoy family left Russia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Soviet Union. Leo Tolstoy's relatives and descendants moved to Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and the United States. Tolstoy died of pneumonia at Astapovo train station, after a day's rail journey south on November 20, 1910 at the age of 82.