Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales

by graf Leo Tolstoy

CONTENTS

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FABLES FOR CHILDREN

• Æsop's Fables [3]
• Adaptations and Imitations of Hindoo Fables [19]

STORIES FOR CHILDREN

• The Foundling [39]
• The Peasant and the Cucumbers [40]
• The Fire [41]
• The Old Horse [43]
• How I Learned to Ride [46]
• The Willow [49]
• Búlka [51]
• Búlka and the Wild Boar [53]
• Pheasants [56]
• Milton and Búlka [58]
• The Turtle [60]
• Búlka and the Wolf [62]
• What Happened to Búlka in Pyatigórsk [65]
• Búlka's and Milton's End [68]
• The Gray Hare [70]
• God Sees the Truth, but Does Not Tell at Once [72]
• Hunting Worse than Slavery [82]
• A Prisoner of the Caucasus [92]
• Ermák [124]

NATURAL SCIENCE STORIES

• Stories From Physics:
  
• The Magnet [137]
• Moisture [140]
• The Different Connection of Particles [142]
• Crystals [143]
• Injurious Air [146]
• How Balloons Are Made [150]
• Galvanism [152]
• The Sun's Heat [156]
• 
  
• Stories From Zoology:
  
• The Owl and the Hare [159]
• How the Wolves Teach Their Whelps [160]
• Hares and Wolves [161]
• The Scent [162]
• Touch and Sight [164]
• The Silkworm [165]
• 
  
• Stories From Botany:
  
• The Apple-Tree [170]
• The Old Poplar [172]
• The Bird-Cherry [174]
• How Trees Walk [176]
• The Decembrists [181]
• On Popular Education [251]
• What Men Live By [327]
• The Three Hermits [363]
• Neglect the Fire [375]
• The Candle [395]
• The Two Old Men [409]
• Where Love Is, There God Is Also [445]

TEXTS FOR CHAPBOOK ILLUSTRATIONS

• The Fiend Persists, but God Resists [463]
• Little Girls Wiser than Old People [466]
• The Two Brothers and the Gold [469]
• Ilyás [472]
• A Fairy-Tale about Iván the Fool [481]