About the Book : The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy
The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (18281910) ranks as one
of the worlds greatest writers. This edition of his selected works brings his
thirty-five best short stories ranging from stories for children, stories for
the people, and Russian folk tales to his adaptations from French stories and
the ones written for the Jewish pogrom victims in Russia. The purpose of all
true creative art, he believed, is to teach. But the message in all his stories
is presented with such humour that the reader hardly realizes that it is
strongly didactic.
Tolstoy authored some