What Men Live by and Other Tales

Leo Tolstoi

ReadHowYouWant.com, Apr 16, 2009 - Fiction - 96 pages

What Men Live By and Other Tales is a collection of short stories by Leo Tolstoy that was first published in 1885. What Men Live By is a spiritual tale about a fallen angel who is defiant of the plan of God and is assigned to learn three lessons - what is

Contents

• What Men Live By: 1
• Chapter I: 5
• Three Questions: 46
• The CoffeeHouse of Surat: 53
• How Much Land Does a Man Need?: 66
• Chapter II: 69
• Chapter III: 73
• Chapter IV: 77
• Chapter V: 81
• Chapter VI: 84
• Chapter VII: 87
• Chapter VIII: 89
• Chapter IX: 94

About the author

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 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: What Men Live by and Other Tales
• Author: Leo Tolstoi
• Edition: large print
• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com, 2009
• ISBN: 1427018650, 9781427018656
• Length: 96 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)