Prisoner in the Caucasus and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy

The three other stories are called The Raid, The Wood-Felling and Yardstick.

Genres: Russia, Classics

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1984

About the author

Lev 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.

Reviews

[Veysel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lev Tolstoy - Önemli Olan Bir An Vardır O da Şimdidir!
Bir zamanlar kralın biri, şayet bir işe doğru zamanda başlamayı bilirse, kimin sözüne kulak verip kimden uzak duracağını bilirse ve de hepsinden önemlisi, her zaman yapması gereken en önemli şeyin ne olduğunu bilirse, giriştiği hiçbir işte başarısızlığa uğramayacağını düşünürmüş.

[Ziggythecat12 · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 short stories. The prisoner... beautifully written with characters you immediately see and empathise with. My favourite though is 'yardstick'. A story told by an old horse. Heartbreaking but uplifting. I came away with the belief that Tolstoy finds horses better beings than humans.
Amazing writing and the translation flowed.

[Sonic · Rating 4 out of 5]

the Raduga Publishers 1983 is not a good translation