The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy
Rupa Publications · Hardcover · March 5, 2023
The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828– 1910) ranks as one of the world’ s greatest writers.
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- Who it’s for
- Tolstoy’s stories pair moral purpose with humor, across a wide-ranging collection of short fiction.
- Genres
- Russian & Former Soviet Collections, 19th-Century Russian Fiction
- Published
- Rupa Publications, March 5, 2023
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The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828– 1910) ranks as one of the world’ s greatest writers. This edition of his selected works brings his thirty-five best short stories ranging from stories for children, stories for the people, and Russian folk tales to his adaptations from French stories and the ones written for the Jewish pogrom victims in Russia. The purpose of all true creative art, he believed, is to teach.
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But the message in all his stories is presented with such humour that the reader hardly realizes that it is strongly didactic. Tolstoy authored some of the world’ s best and most recognized works over the course of a nearly half-century career which has stood the test of time and geographical boundaries
Moral Wit
Tolstoy’s stories pair moral purpose with humor, across a wide-ranging collection of short fiction.
Come here for
- Short fiction where humor carries a moral purpose
- A broad sampler of Tolstoy’s stories and adaptations
Expect
- Stories for children, popular audiences, and Jewish pogrom victims
- Russian folk tales alongside adaptations of French stories
Where it sits
| Russian & Former Soviet Collections | 79% |
|---|---|
| 19th-Century Russian Fiction | 73% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Short Story Criticism
- Authors
- Leo Tolstoy
- Publisher
- Rupa Publications
- Published
- March 5, 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Reading lane
- Short Story Criticism