Master and Man and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140443312
ISBN-139780140443318
eBay Product ID (ePID)42439
Product Key Features
Original LanguageRussian
Book TitleMaster and Man and Other Stories
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year1977
GenreFiction
AuthorLeo Tolstoi
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight6.9 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN78-305821
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal891.7/33
SynopsisThese three stories were begun in the 1890s during the period when Tolstoy, tormented by questions of religion and morality, undertook literature almost as a guilty pleasure. He none the less put his highest art into them and only twinges of dogma. Both Father Sergius and Master and Man are preoccupied with material desires - for the flesh in one instance and in the other for money - although the first story, involving a dashing young officer turned monk, also bears out Tolstoy's assertion that 'the struggle with lust is...only a stage; the main struggle is with worldly fame'. Hadji Murat stands apart in that Tolstoy lost all compulsion to moralize and going back to the Caucasus where he spent his young manhood, gives us in a soldier-traitor one of his most memorable heroes.