Publisher's Synopsis
A man embarks on a journey or a stranger arrives in town is the theme of all great literature. Leo Tolstoy authored some of the world's best and most recognised works over the course of a nearly half-century career. This collection includes thirty-five of his best short stories, ranging from children's stories, people's stories, and Russian folk tales to his adaptations of French stories and stories written for the victims of the Russian pogrom. It includes The Snowstorm (1856), Polikushka (1863), The Prisoner of the Caucasus (1872), Where Love is, There God is Also (1885), Two Old Men (1885), Ivan the Fool (1885), Kholstomír (1885), The Imp and The Crust (1886), The Coffee House of Surat (1893), Master and Man (1895), Father Sergius, Work, Death and Sickness, After the Dance, and Alyosha the Pot (1911), among his other masterpieces. An editorial note precedes each work.
