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Contes et nouvelles - Tome I - D'où vient le mal - Le Filleul. Légende populaire - Les Deux Vieillards - Les Trois Vieillards. Conte de la région de la ... l'eau - Le Pécheur repen...
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- GenresShort Stories
391 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 27, 2011
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Leo Tolstoy
7,960 books28.5k followersLev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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January 3, 2026
I had hoped this would be my last book of 2025, but instead it is my first of 2026. Why? you may ask. Well, it's simple. Some of the stories were not so short. But this collection (vol. 1 of 4) allowed me to renew my acquaintance with Russian literature and do some reading in French as well.
Tolstoy is didactic, and not always very subtle about it. He shows us the bad side of established religion and at the same time teaches us how Christianity should be lived; sadly, many of his characters cannot or will not embrace higher truth.
At the same time, Tolstoy is a gifted painter of sweeping landscapes as well as vividly crafted characters.
All in all, I enjoyed these stories and novellas. Will I manage to read the next three volumes in 2026? Only time will tell.
Tolstoy is didactic, and not always very subtle about it. He shows us the bad side of established religion and at the same time teaches us how Christianity should be lived; sadly, many of his characters cannot or will not embrace higher truth.
At the same time, Tolstoy is a gifted painter of sweeping landscapes as well as vividly crafted characters.
All in all, I enjoyed these stories and novellas. Will I manage to read the next three volumes in 2026? Only time will tell.
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