What Men Live By, and Other Tales

by Leo Tolstoy (translated by Aylmer Maude and Louise Maude)

Credits: Leo Tolstoy (author)

Summary

Tolstoy's late folk-style stories in Aylmer Maude's translation, including 'What Men Live By' and 'How Much Land Does a Man Need?'. A shoemaker, a peasant and a wandering angel meet simple dilemmas. Plain, moral and moving. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.

Chapters (4)

  1. 1. What Men Live by
  2. 2. Three Questions
  3. 3. The Coffee-House of Surat
  4. 4. How Much Land Does a Man Need?

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