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What Men Live By
The Two Pilgrims
Where Love is, there God is
If you neglect the Fire
Ivan, the Fool
How much Land does a Man Need?
The Godson
Overthrow of Hell
King Assarhadon & other Stories
ESSAYS
The Christian Teaching
How shall we Escape?
My Reply to the Synod's Edict
The only Means
Reason, Faith, and Prayer
Appeal to the Clergy
To the Working People
Appeal to Social Reformers
Bethink Yourselves
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TOLSTOY'S
Popular Stories
and Legends
First and Second Series
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Carmen Sylva, the gifted Queen of Roumania, writing to "Die Zeit," Vienna, pays tribute to Tolstoy's sincerity and genius in these words:
"Tolstoy's short stories, of all the works which this great man and artist has written, have made the strongest impression upon me. I regard them as the most perfect tales ever written. In these popular stories a thought of the highest purity reaches us, which to my mind is far more eloquent than the subtlest forms. The highest art is given us, and it will survive all times, like Dante, Shakespeare, the Bible, for here is the Eternal Truth. It surprises me that people speak more about the so-called greater works of Tolstoy than of these little jewels, which are quite unique. If Tolstoy had written nothing but these short stories, he would still have belonged to the greatest men of the world. When writing them he could not have had a base thought, must have been a friend of suffering humanity, and a real Christian."
Five Recent Stories
by Tolstoy
IN ONE VOLUME
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THE DIVINE AND
THE HUMAN
The first and second of these stories deal with the Revolution and its victims. Here is a sympathetic account of their sufferings while in prison or en route to the place of exile, with a description of the psychological processes whereby a young revolutionist, condemned to death by hanging, is led to a full and satisfactory understanding of the meaning of Life by reading the Beatitudes. There is an immediate response from within, and Svetlogoub endures the cross, forgives his murderers, and dies with a smile on his face.
Another revolutionist, a materialist, becoming convinced of the stupidity of existence and the hopelessness of the struggle against reaction, commits suicide in his cell, while an old sectarian prisoner dies happily, invoking the Lamb of God.
Here also is the story of a young Pole, who, on being banished to a distant province, tries to escape, but is recaptured, sentenced to receive "a thousand stripes," and finally sent to Siberia for life.