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Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)

Author of Anna Karenina

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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828 in Russia. He is usually referred to as Leo Tolstoy. He was a Russian author who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Leo Tolstoy is best known for his novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy's show more fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays. Tolstoy had a profound moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870's which he outlined in his work, A Confession. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas of nonviolent resistance which he shared in his works The Kingdom of God is Within You, had a profund impact on figures such as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. On September 23, 1862 Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs. She was the daughter of a court physician. They had 13 children, eight of whom survived childhood. Their early married life allowed Tolstoy much freedom to compose War and Peace and Anna Karenina with his wife acting as his secretary and proofreader. The Tolstoy family left Russia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Soviet Union. Leo Tolstoy's relatives and descendants moved to Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and the United States. Tolstoy died of pneumonia at Astapovo train station, after a day's rail journey south on November 20, 1910 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) Count Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 on the family estate of Yasnaya Polyana in the Tula province. He married in 1862 & was the father of 13 children. Tolstoy managed the estate of Yasnaya Polyana & ran its peasant schools, while writing his great novels, "War & Peace" (1869) & "Anna Karenina" (1877). He died in 1910. (Publisher Provided) show less

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Works by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina (1875) 38,230 copies
War and Peace (1869) 28,595 copies
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) 5,374 copies
Resurrection (1899) 2,996 copies
The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) 1,600 copies
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (1856) 1,168 copies
Hadji Murat (1912) 1,099 copies
The Cossacks (1863) 926 copies
War and Peace (1/2) (1869) 885 copies
A Confession (1882) 829 copies
What is art? (1897) 771 copies
War and Peace (2/2) (1869) 699 copies
Master and Man (1895) 468 copies
Anna Karenina. Vol. 1/2 (1878) 464 copies
Family Happiness (1859) 452 copies
The Sebastopol Sketches (1855) 444 copies
The Works of Leo Tolstoi (1904) 382 copies
Анна Каренина (-0001) 365 copies
What Men Live By (1881) 336 copies
The Devil (1911) 213 copies
The Forged Coupon (1911) 172 copies
Father Sergius (1911) 171 copies
Tolstoy's Short Fiction (1991) 153 copies
Childhood (1962) 153 copies
The Cossacks, and The Raid (1852) 153 copies
Short Stories (1940) 152 copies
The Portable Tolstoy (1978) 143 copies
War and Peace (2/3) (1889) — Author — 115 copies
Fables and Fairy Tales (1960) 104 copies
War and Peace (2/4) (1869) — Author — 102 copies
War and Peace (3/3) (1922) — Author — 100 copies
War and Peace (1/4) (1869) 98 copies
War and Peace (1/3) (1921) — Author — 97 copies
Strider: The Story of a Horse (1886) — Author, some editions — 97 copies
Twenty-Three Tales (1906) 97 copies
Philipok (2000) 84 copies
What Then Must We Do? (1886) 84 copies
War and Peace (4/4) (1869) 82 copies
War and Peace (3/4) (1869) — Author — 81 copies
Boyhood (1972) 81 copies
The Collected Stories (2001) 80 copies
Two Hussars (1856) 75 copies
The Cossacks / War and Peace / Anna Karenina (2007) — Author — 75 copies
Four Great Russian Short Novels (1959) — Contributor — 74 copies
Sus mejores cuentos (1983) 71 copies
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2 (2020) — Contributor — 70 copies
A Prisoner in the Caucasus (1872) 70 copies
The Power of Darkness (1925) 64 copies
Ivan the Fool (1885) 63 copies
A Letter to a Hindu (1997) 56 copies
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 1 (2017) — Contributor — 56 copies
Polikushka (1863) — Author — 53 copies
Tolstoy Short Stories (2018) 52 copies
Youth (1972) — Author — 50 copies
Stories and Legends (1945) 50 copies
The Live Corpse (1900) 46 copies
Anna Karenina (Norton Critical Editions) (1993) — Author — 44 copies
After the Ball (1903) 44 copies
Martin the Cobbler [1977 film] (1977) — Original story — 43 copies
Tolstoy's Diaries (1979) 40 copies
La tormenta de nieve (1856) 39 copies
Resurrection (1/2) (1904) 34 copies
The Godson (1886) 34 copies
The Light Shines in Darkness (2001) — Author — 33 copies
Nikolenka's Childhood (1963) 32 copies
Resurrection (2/2) (1983) 32 copies
What I Believe (1902) 30 copies
Tales of Army Life (1935) 30 copies
Volkerzählungen (1951) 29 copies
Anna Karenina (1/3) (1969) — Author — 27 copies
Anna Karénine (1951) 27 copies
Meistererzählungen (1958) 26 copies
Anna Karenina (3/3) (1981) — Author — 26 copies
Tolstoy on Education (1967) 26 copies
Polikushka and Two Hussars (1940) 25 copies
I quattro libri di lettura (1875) 25 copies
Enfance et adolescence (1961) 25 copies
Uc Olum (1859) 24 copies
Die großen Erzählungen (1930) 24 copies
The Three Questions (1903) 24 copies
The Slavery Of Our Times (1901) 24 copies
Anna Karenina (2/3) (1969) — Author — 23 copies
Plays (1923) 23 copies
On Life: A Critical Edition (1934) 23 copies
Russian Stories and Legends (1967) 21 copies
Polikusjka : Efter balen (1974) 21 copies
Tutti i racconti vol. 1 (1991) 20 copies
Selected essays (1964) 20 copies
Leo Tolstoy: Last Diaries (1960) — Author — 20 copies
Obras (1901) 19 copies
Government Is Violence (1990) 19 copies
La sonata a Kreutzer - I cosacchi (1952) — Author — 19 copies
Obras Completas I (2003) 19 copies
Die schönsten Erzählungen (1960) 18 copies
The Short Novels of Tolstoy (1946) — Author — 18 copies
Tutti i racconti vol. 2 (1991) 18 copies
Bethink Yourselves! (2008) 18 copies
Katia (2009) 18 copies
Tutti i racconti (1991) 17 copies
The Cause of it All (1900) 17 copies
The Wisdom of Human Kind (1989) 17 copies
Fruits of Culture (2009) 17 copies
Two Old Men (1885) 16 copies
Cuentos para niños (1972) 16 copies
Path of Life (1993) 15 copies
Krig och fred. III, 1812 (2017) 15 copies
Guerra e Paz - Volume 2 (2007) 15 copies
The Greatest Short Stories (2018) 14 copies
Cartas (1979) 14 copies
Utvalgte fortellinger (1974) 14 copies
Relatos (2008) 14 copies
The Great Man. 14 copies
A Manhã de um Senhor (2013) 13 copies
Varya and Her Greenfinch (1986) 13 copies
Alyosha the Pot (1905) 13 copies
Obras completas (2004) 13 copies
Recollections And Essays (1937) 13 copies
Tolstoi (2016) 12 copies
Frühe Erzählungen (1974) 12 copies
Contos da Nova Cartilha (2005) 12 copies
Meester en knecht (1946) 12 copies
Nine stories, 1855-63 (1934) 12 copies
The First Distiller (2009) 12 copies
La revolución interior (2010) 11 copies
Verhalen 11 copies
My Confession My Religion (1994) 11 copies
Ч. 1-4 (1993) 11 copies
Späte Erzählungen (1961) — Author — 10 copies
Perché la gente si droga? (1988) 10 copies
Three Hermits (1886) 10 copies
Christianity and patriotism (1922) 10 copies
Muurahainen ja kyyhkynen (1987) 9 copies
Geduld ist alles (2016) 9 copies
Tales 9 copies
Six Russian Short Novels (1963) 9 copies
5 Russian Masters (2003) 9 copies
De literator en de holbewoner (1964) — Author — 9 copies
Sulla vita (2012) 9 copies
Guerra y paz . 1 (2003) 9 copies
Studentenjaren (2011) 9 copies
O Diabo e Outros Contos (2008) 9 copies
Fortellinger (2017) 9 copies
Povesti i rasskazy (1988) 8 copies
Cuentos escogidos (1995) 8 copies
Redemption (1920) 8 copies
The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï (1907) — Author — 8 copies
Der Überfall (1979) 8 copies
[Guerra e pace] 1 (1985) 8 copies
[Guerra e pace] 2 (1958) 8 copies
Voyna i mir: Tom I-II (2000) 7 copies
The lion and the dog (1975) 7 copies
Anna Karenina, Book 7 (2016) 7 copies
Essays and Letters (1904) 7 copies
Plody prosveshhenija (1979) 7 copies
Noveller 7 copies
HADJI MURAD AND OTHER STORIES. (2022) — Author — 7 copies
Om vold og kjærlighet (1977) 7 copies
Werke Bd. 2 7 copies
Stories (1983) 6 copies
War and Peace: v. 2 (2017) 6 copies
Ainsi meurt l'amour (1997) 6 copies
Placeres Crueles (2014) 6 copies
Fortellinger og legender (2001) 6 copies
La guerra y la paz . I (1981) 6 copies
Omatuntoja (2013) 6 copies
Guerra e Paz Vol II (2017) 6 copies
The inevitable revolution (1975) — Author — 6 copies
Histórias de Bichos (2013) 6 copies
Teatro 6 copies
Tutti i romanzi 5 copies
Ilkgenclik 5 copies
Anna Karenina [1985 TV movie] (1995) — Author — 5 copies
Une paysanne russe (2003) 5 copies
Un musicien déchu (2000) 5 copies
Cuentos (2010) 5 copies
My Confession and Critique of Dogmatic Theology (1904) — Author — 5 copies
Tolstoin tarinoita (1979) 5 copies
Tolstoj o Muhamedu (2005) 5 copies
Selected Tales 5 copies
Mulheres Fascinantes (2017) 5 copies
Tagebuch 1895-1898 (1917) 5 copies
Krig og fred (1979) 4 copies
Die Brüder des Zaren (1964) 4 copies
Fortællinger 4 copies
Perché sono vegetariano. (2018) 4 copies
Memorie di una contadina (2008) 4 copies
The Truth About my Father (2004) 4 copies
Guerra e pace 4 copies
Wojna i pokoj. Tom 3 i 4 (2017) 4 copies
Arte de Recomeçar (2017) 4 copies
Genclik (2015) 4 copies
Historia De Mi Infancia (1988) 4 copies
Contos de Guerra (2015) 4 copies
Stories for Children (1977) 4 copies
I Diari (1997) 4 copies
Correspondencia (2008) 4 copies
Избранное (1993) 4 copies
War And Peace [abridged] (1956) 4 copies
Obras completas . IV (2004) 4 copies
Little stories (1971) — Author — 4 copies
posthumous works (1920) 4 copies
Essays from Tula (1948) 4 copies
El primer peldaño (2018) 4 copies
Wojna i pokoj. Tomy 1-2 (2000) 3 copies
Bir Gencin Drami (2020) 3 copies
The Candle (2005) 3 copies
Jeunesse suivi de souvenirs. (1971) — Author — 3 copies
Detiam (2005) 3 copies
The Kreutzer Sonata (2017) 3 copies
La verdadera vida (1982) 3 copies
Tres tormentas de nieve (2004) 3 copies
Oorlog en vrede 3 copies
Quale scuola? 3 copies
The Great Bear 3 copies
Krieg und Frieden (2006) 3 copies
Anna Karenina 1.Cilt (2019) 3 copies
The Young Tsar 3 copies
Yalanci Iliskiler (2004) 3 copies
Idylles paysannes (1920) 3 copies
Sõda ja rahu I 3 copies
Kosackerna II 3 copies
Guerre et paix (2010) — Auteur illustré — 3 copies
Los decembristas (2004) 3 copies
La vita buona (1996) 3 copies
Work, Death, and Sickness (1903) 3 copies
Vojna a mír. 1 (2002) 3 copies
Romanzi brevi (1992) 3 copies
La familia del Vourdalak (2004) 3 copies
Anna Karenina. Level 6 (1726) 3 copies
Tolstoi's Essay (1922) 3 copies
Life (1958) 3 copies
Ljucern (2013) 3 copies
War and Peace II (1957) 3 copies
Ma Religion 3 copies
Aforismos (2019) 3 copies
Babine, o tolo 3 copies
Nouvelles (1967) 3 copies
Rat i mir- tom 1 (2010) 3 copies
Anna Karenina / Bind 1 (1994) 2 copies
Tolstojs letzte Jahre. (1992) 2 copies
What is Religion? (2016) 2 copies
L'argent et le travail (2007) 2 copies
Anna Karenina (3/4) — Author — 2 copies
Salto (2012) 2 copies
De roggekorrel 2 copies
Lebensstufen 2 copies
Leo N. Tolstoi (1988) 2 copies
Dest d'una dona de poble (2013) 2 copies
Guerra e pace 2 copies
Letters and essays — Author — 2 copies
Albert (Short Story) (1858) 2 copies
Tre noveller (1971) 2 copies
Verhalen 2 2 copies
Tolstoi-Brevier (1998) 2 copies
Haboru es beke regeny (1954) 2 copies
Tri rakontoj 2 copies
Journal intime (1853-1865) (1926) — Author — 2 copies
DRAMEN 2 copies
Il bastoncino verde (1998) 2 copies
Christ's Christianity (1885) 2 copies
Rozprávky a bájky (2003) 2 copies
Aabitsajutte 2 copies
Invierea. Top 10 (2021) 2 copies
Dvě smrti (2003) 2 copies
Čemu (novele) 2 copies
The Imp and the Crust (1886) 2 copies
The Coffee House of Surat (1893) 2 copies
Too Dear! (1897) 2 copies
Esarhaddon, Rey de Asiria (1903) 2 copies
Rusia. Volumen 2 — Contributor — 2 copies
Salada russa (1988) 2 copies
Über Literatur und Kunst (1980) 2 copies
L'Esclavage Moderne (2012) 2 copies
El musico Alberto (2014) 2 copies
Inutilité de la violence (2022) 2 copies
Krig och fred. Del 1 (2019) 2 copies
Anna Karenina / Bind 2 (1994) 2 copies
Ma confession (2021) 2 copies
Werke in vier Bänden. (1877) 2 copies
Guerre et Paix 2 (2016) 2 copies
Anna Karenina (Adapted for the stage by Marina Carr) (2016) — Original Author — 2 copies
Karma (Spanish Edition) (2010) 2 copies
Contes i Faules 2 copies
Put' zhizni (2013) 2 copies
Ms makt (1974) 2 copies
Uždraustasis Tolstojus (2014) 2 copies
Den store uret 2 copies
Ressurreição e Vida (2008) 2 copies
Shakespeare (1998) 2 copies
Wojna i pokój 3 (1988) 2 copies
War and peace 1 2 copies
Anna Karenina 3 (2016) 2 copies
Le cheval/Albert (2016) 2 copies
War and Peace Volume 2 (1971) 2 copies
Tolstoy on art (2010) — Author — 2 copies
Sobranie sochineniˆi — Author — 2 copies
Contes (1996) 2 copies
Au Caucase 2 copies
Le chemin de la vie (2017) 2 copies
X 2 copies
Punarutthan 2 copies
Guerra e rivoluzione (2015) 2 copies
Fábulas (1981) 2 copies
Sivastopol (ciltli) (2009) 2 copies
Hikayeler (1998) 2 copies
Guerra e Pace 2 copies
El poder (2005) 2 copies
Recuerdos (1972) 2 copies
Three tales 2 copies
Malé romány (1990) 1 copy
La mia vita 1 copy
Samlade Verk 1 copy
Άπαντα 1 copy
Az életről 1 copy
HAXHI MURATI 1 copy
Medve a szekéren (1977) 1 copy
Teatro (1952) 1 copy
I. Péter 1 copy
Der Bär in der Troika (1970) 1 copy
Baskın (2000) 1 copy
Öyküler (2018) 1 copy
Kafkas Esiri (2019) 1 copy
Kadin Ruhu (2016) 1 copy
Kafkas Tutsagi (2021) 1 copy
Hz. Muhammed (2017) 1 copy
Olum Manifestosu (2004) 1 copy
Hóvihar 1 copy
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Common Knowledge

Legal name
Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayevich
Other names
Толстой, Лев Николаевич
Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayevich
Tolstoi, Leo N.
Birthdate
1828-09-09
1828-08-28 (OS)
Date of death
1910-11-20
1910-11-07 (OS)
Burial location
Tolstoy Home, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula, Russia
Gender
male
Nationality
Russia
Birthplace
Yasnaya Polyana, Tula, Russian Empire
Place of death
Astapovo, Ryazan, Russian Empire
Cause of death
pneumonia
Places of residence
Tula Region, Shchekino District, Russian Empire
Moscow, Russian Empire
Kazan, Russian Empire
Education
University of Kazan
Occupations
novelist
short-story writer
playwright
Relationships
Tolstoy, Sophia (wife)
Tolstoy, Alexandra (daughter)
Tolstoy, Tatyana (daughter)
Tolstaya, Tatyana (great-grandniece)
Tolstoy, Ilia (son)
Tolstoy, Aleksey Konstantinovich (second cousin)
Short biography
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received multiple nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and nominations for Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 and 1910 and the fact that he never won is a major Nobel prize controversy.

Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), Family Happiness (1859), and Hadji Murad (1912). He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.

In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening, as outlined in his non-fiction work A Confession (1882). His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. Tolstoy's ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894), had a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Tolstoy also became a dedicated advocate of Georgism, the economic philosophy of Henry George, which he incorporated into his writing, particularly Resurrection (1899).

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I tried. I resolved to reading this entire book simply so I could say I did. But it was so boring. Yes, the writing was perfect, but the story was just prolonged and uninteresting. If you want to be proud that you read, then go right ahead. I won’t think unkindly if you give up. :)
 
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(spoilers) Like all of Tolstoy's big books this has taken a chunk out of my life but many were the moments that I wanted to give-up on Anna Karenina because I found sections of it fairly tedious and plodding. Nevertheless, I ploughed on to the end, like one of the diligent peasants, and was rewarded by passages of great lyrical beauty, especially where the countryside entered the story. Although Anna's death ultimately has no meaning or significance and her 'tiny hands' and Vronsky's 'straight teeth' were a repetitious form of cultural (perhaps temporal) dissonance, I felt as though I'd only been given a tantalising glimpse of Anna. She seemed to have come from nowhere (unlike the other characters). Just as the power of her full womanhood came to assert itself, she began a descent onto a deranged path of delusional self-destruction. She could so easily have found happiness. But maybe that was the point: that happiness was a delusion. Certainly, Levin believes there is 'nothing for every man to look forward to except suffering, death, and everlasting oblivion'. However, right at the end of the book he manages to arrive at what could be a durable moment of realisation related to an unconditional and innate 'goodness'. Although accompanied by revelation and even lightning, he claims this comes quietly. He struggles a little to separate it from religion but manages to do so just as the novel enfolds its ending in a form of domestic bliss.

What I missed in this book written with Tolstoy's author omniscience was the way he was able to stand aside from the action and comment as he did in 'War and Peace'. Nevertheless, almost a similar effect is achieved (with wry comment) when many of the characters appear to respond to some will of their own, almost beyond the author's control. A character would intend to say or do one thing but instead say or do another. For example,


'Anna looked at Dolly's thin, careworn face with its wrinkles filled with dust and was about to tell her what she was thinking, namely, that Dolly looked thinner; but remembering that her own looks had improved and that Dolly's eyes had told her so, she signed and began talking about herself.'
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simonpockley | 621 other reviews | Feb 25, 2024 |
Four late short stories by Tolstoy are a pleasant break from reading a Stalinist-era memoir. This collection includes a story of which James Joyce wrote: "[it] is the greatest story that the literature of the world knows". It is a rich group of parables which Tolstoy imbues with the passionate religious feeling of his later years.

The title story concerns a poor shoemaker named Simon and his wife who, moved by pity, take in a man Simon finds naked and hungry. The man rarely talks but turns out to have wonderful skill at making and repairing shoes. After six years of living and working with them the man is revealed as the angel Michael, who had disobeyed God and as a result had been sent to earth to live as a man until he learned three lessons. The first of these is what dwells in man (love); the second of these is what is not given to man (to know his own needs); and the third of these is what men live by:
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
The second story, "Three Questions", is a brief tale of a King who goes to see a hermit to ask him, well, three questions that occupy his mind: when is the right time to begin any action, whom it is most important to listen to, and what is the most important thing to do.
Remember then: there is only one time that is important - Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else, and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life.
The third story, "The Coffee House of Surat", is an engaging argument for religious brotherhood and tolerance that a great many people would do well to read 125 years now after it was published.
They all argued about the nature of God, and how He should be worshipped. Each of them asserted that in his country alone was the true God known and rightly worshipped...
"So on matters of faith," continued the Chinaman, the student of Confucius, "it is pride that causes error and discord among men. As with the sun, so it is with God. Each man wants to have a special God of his own, or at least a special God for his native land. Each nation wishes to confine in its own temples Him, whom the world cannot contain. Can any temple compare with that which God Himself has built to unite all men in one faith and one religion?
But in what temple is there such a font as the ocean; such a vault as that of the heavens; such lamps as the sun, moon, and stars; or any figures to be compared with living, loving, mutually helpful men? Where are there any records of God's goodness so easy to understand as the blessings which God has strewn abroad for man's happiness? Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart? What sacrifices equal the self-denials which loving men and women make for one another? And what altar can be compared with the heart of a good man, on which God Himself accepts the sacrifice? The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him, imitating His goodness, His mercy, and His love of man. Therefore, let him who sees the sun's whole light filling the world, refrain from blaming or despising the superstitious man, who in his own idol sees one ray of that same light. Let him not despise even the unbeliever who is blind and cannot see the sun at all."
The final story, "How Much Land Does A Man Need?", is the story so well thought of by Joyce. It tells of a peasant who is provoked by the Devil to keep seeking ever more land for himself, greed continually making him envious of those he meets who seem to have found better fortune than him, filling his heart so that he cannot be happy with that which he already has, no matter how many times he "moves up in the world", so to speak. He ends up with a nomadic tribe of Bashkirs, a Turkic people in Southern Russia, whose Chief tells him that for a thousand rubles he can have all the rich virgin land of theirs that he can encircle on foot from sun up to sun down. The catch is that if he is not back at the starting point when the sun sets, he forfeits his money. Naturally, the peasant Pahom lets his greed get the better of him and walks too far away from the start/finish point. It is a brutally hot day and he forces himself to run as hard as he can once he realizes his error in order to try to make it back to the spot where the Chief and tribe wait. He barely makes it, as the Chief sits holding his sides in laughter, but the strenuous effort was too much, and he falls dead. His grave is dug right there, all six feet of it - all the land he needs.
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