Leo Tolstoy: The Short Stories

The Coffee-House of Surat; Master and Man; How Much Land Does a Man Need?; Alyosha the Pot; Ivan the Fool

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

“It seems a pity to give up what one is used to and accustomed to. But there's nothing to be done, I shall get used to the new things.”

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 at home.

But when the last of them had gone he at once began to prepare to drive over to see a neighbouring proprietor about a grove which he had been bargaining over for a long time. He was now in a hurry to start, lest buyers from the town might forestall him in making a profitable purchase.

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This was my first experience with Leo Tolstoy and I rather enjoyed my time with these stories. My favorite was Ivan the Fool.