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Leo Tolstoy's short story Master and Man is a classic story of a landowner and his servant on a adventurous and dangerous journey. Tolstoy's moral of the story is the happiness of universal love as taught by Christianity, and it touches upon issues of class, humanity and morality.

In this short story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to the house of the owner of a forest. He is impatient and wishes to get to the town more quickly 'for business' (purchasing the forest before other... Read Full Overview

A wealthy landowner and his servant set out by sleigh on a winter errand-simple, profitable, and urgent. But as night falls, the road disappears, the wind rises, and the journey turns into a fight for survival.

In Master and Man (1895), Leo Tolstoy delivers a... Read Full Overview

Tolstoy (1828-1910) wrote Master and Man in 1894, from an idea which originated two years earlier while he was organising food centres in the famine-stricken areas of central Russia. The story is of two individuals caught in a snowstorm. By showing how they react when faced with... Read Full Overview

It happened in the 'seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas's Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and had also to entertain his relatives and friends... Read Full Overview

Tolstoy is known primarily for his epic novels like War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but he also wrote a number of excellent short pieces that carry the same kind of themes on a much smaller scale. Two of the best are "Master and Man" and "The Death of Ivan Ilych."... Read Full Overview

Leo Tolstoy is one of the most famous writers in history, and a Russian icon, thanks to works such as War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Tolstoy is considered one of the giants of Russian literature; his works include the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina and novellas such as Hadji Murad and The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

Tolstoy's earliest works, the autobiographical novels Childhood, Boyhood,... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

Leo N. Tolstoi: Herr und Knecht. Eine Erz hlung Erstdruck in der Zeitschrift Sewerny Westnik (N rdlicher Bote), 1895. Hier in der bersetzung von Hermann R hl, 1913. Vollst ndige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Umschlaggestaltung... Read Full Overview