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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140443312

ISBN-139780140443318

eBay Product ID (ePID)42439

Product Key Features

Original LanguageRussian

Book TitleMaster and Man and Other Stories

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary

Publication Year1977

GenreFiction

AuthorLeo Tolstoi

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight6.9 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN78-305821

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal891.7/33

SynopsisThese three stories were begun in the 1890s during the period when Tolstoy, tormented by questions of religion and morality, undertook literature almost as a guilty pleasure. He none the less put his highest art into them and only twinges of dogma. Both Father Sergius and Master and Man are preoccupied with material desires - for the flesh in one instance and in the other for money - although the first story, involving a dashing young officer turned monk, also bears out Tolstoy's assertion that 'the struggle with lust is...only a stage; the main struggle is with worldly fame'. Hadji Murat stands apart in that Tolstoy lost all compulsion to moralize and going back to the Caucasus where he spent his young manhood, gives us in a soldier-traitor one of his most memorable heroes.

LC Classification NumberPG3365.A2