Tales from Tolstoi

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Tales from Tolstoi (1901)
by Leo Tolstoi, translated by Robert Nisbet Bain
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TALES FROM TOLSTOI


Tales from Tolstoi


Translated from the Russian with Biography of the Author, by

R. Nisbet Bain


With Photogravure Portrait


SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE
SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE

LONDON
JARROLD & SONS, 10 & 11, WARWICK LANE, E.C.
[All Rights Reserved]
MDCCCCI

Copyright

London: Jarrold & Sons

Boston: L. C. Page & Company

Contents
Page
Preface vii.
Biography ix.
Master and Man 1
How Much Land Does a Man Require? 80
How the Little Demon Earned his Stolen Crust of Bread 103
Where Love Is There God Is Also 108
The Candle 127
Neglect a Fire, and 'twill Overmaster Thee 140
Two Old Men 163
What Men Live By 197
God Sees the Right, Though He Be Slow to Speak 231
The Grain That Was Like an Egg 244
Three Old Men 249
The Godfather 260

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Original:

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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Translation:

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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