Fiction · 1895
Master and Man
Leo Tolstoy · translated by Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude
A merchant sets out with his hired man on a short winter errand to close a land deal before a rival can, pressing on through a worsening snowstorm against every sign that he should turn back — a single overnight journey that becomes a reckoning with what a life spent chasing profit was actually worth.
Leo Tolstoy published Master and Man in 1895, one of the late moral fables he wrote after his religious conversion, translated into English by Aylmer Maude and Louise Maude.
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1828–1910 · Victorian
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, his family’s estate south of Moscow, served in the Caucasus and at Sevastopol, and between 1863 and 1877 wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina. A spiritual crisis after Anna Karenina turned him to religious and moral writing and to the doctrines of non-violence and simplicity that made him, by the end of his life, a world figure; the late fiction includes The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Kreutzer Sonata and Resurrection. He died at the railway station of Astapovo after leaving home at eighty-two.
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