Short story by Leo Tolstoy

"Twenty-Three Tales" is a popular compilation of short stories by Leo Tolstoy. According to its publisher, Oxford University Press, the collection is about contemporary classes in Russia during Tolstoy's time, written in a brief, morality-tale style.[1] It was translated to English by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude

## Contents

* 1 Contents
* 2 Reviews
* 3 Publication
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Contents[edit]

The stories are divided into seven parts:

1. Tales for Children
1. God Sees the Truth, But Waits
2. The Prisoner of the Caucasus
3. The Bear Hunt
2. Popular Stories
1. What Men Live By
2. Quench the Spark
3. Two Old Men
4. Where Love Is, God Is
3. A Fairy Tale
1. Ivan the Fool
4. Stories Written to Pictures
1. Evil Allures, But Good Endures
2. Wisdom of Children
3. Ilyás
5. Folk-Tales Retold
1. The Three Hermits
2. Promoting a Devil
3. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
4. The Grain
5. The Godson
6. Repentance
7. The Empty Drum
6. Adaptations from the French
1. The Coffee-House of Surat
2. Too Dear!
7. Stories Given to Aid the Persecuted Jews
1. Esarhaddon, King of Assyria
2. Work, Death, and Sickness
3. The Three Questions

## Reviews[edit]

According to Plough, a publication managed by the Anabaptist Bruderhof Communities since 1920, the work is perfect for those daunted by the longer, complicated works of the Russian master, saying that these tales "illumine eternal truths with forceful brevity."[2] According to Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin, a 2009 reviewer with HistoryInReview, Twenty-Three Tales is an excellent collection that doesn't focus too much on Tolstoy's opinion of Christianity, so much as it is "about proper behavior: that people should help one another."[3] According to famed Tolstoy translator Aylmer Maude, the work contains "several of his best tales for the people: 'How Much Land Does a Man Need?', 'Ilyas', 'The Three Hermits', and the excellent temperance story, 'The Imp and the crust.'"[4]

## Publication[edit]

According to an editor at Cambridge University Press, at least one of the stories presented Tolstoy had heard from a wandering storyteller in 1876.[5]

The work was originally published in 1907 by Funk & Wagnalls.[6] It was published by Oxford University Press in 1917,[7] 1924,[8] who would republish it again in 1928,[9] 1947,[1] and 1950.[10]

It was republished by The Plough (maintained by the Bruderhof Communities) in 1998.[11]

## See also[edit]

* Bibliography of Leo Tolstoy

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Leo Tolstoy (1947). Twenty-three Tales. Translated by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude. ISBN 9781427020680.
2. ^ Plough.com. "Walk in the Light, And Twenty-Three Tales, Leo Tolstoy".
3. ^ Israel Drazin (August 4, 2009). "Walk in the Light, And Twenty-Three Tales, By Leo Tolstoy".
4. ^ Aylmer Maude (1910). The Life of Tolstoy. Vol. 2\. Dodd, Mead & Co. p. 297.
5. ^ Donna Tussing Orwin (2010). Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy. Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy. p. 28.
6. ^ Leo Tolstoy (1907). Twenty-Three Tales (PDF). Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Funk & Wagnalls.
7. ^ Leo Tolstoy (1917). Twenty-Three Tales. Translated by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude. Oxford University Press.
8. ^ Leo Tolstoy (1924). Twenty-three Tales. H. Milford; Oxford University Press.
9. ^ Leo Tolstoy (1928). Twenty-three Tales. Translated by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude. Oxford University Press.
10. ^ Leo Tolstoy (1950). Twenty-three Tales. Oxford University Press.
11. ^ Leo Tolstoy (1998). Walk in the Light & Twenty-three Tales. Translated by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude.

## External links[edit]

* Original Text
* Twenty Three Tales, from RevoltLib.com
* Twenty Three Tales, from Marxists.org

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* Bibliography

Novels|

* War and Peace (1869)
* Anna Karenina (1878)
* The Decembrists (1884)
* Resurrection (1899)

Novellas|

* Childhood (1852)
* Boyhood (1854)
* Youth (1856)
* Family Happiness (1859)
* Polikúshka (1860)
* The Cossacks (1863)
* The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
* The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)
* The Devil (1911)
* The Forged Coupon (1911)
* Hadji Murat (1912)

Short stories|

* "The Raid" (1852)
* "The Cutting of the Forest" (1855)
* "Sevastopol Sketches" (1855)
* "Recollections of a Billiard-marker" (1855)
* "The Snowstorm" (1856)
* "Two Hussars" (1856)
* "A Morning of a Landed Proprietor" (1856)
* "Lucerne" (1857)
* "Albert" (1858)
* "Three Deaths" (1859)
* "The Porcelain Doll" (1863)
* "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" (1872)
* "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" (1872)
* "The Bear Hunt" (1872)
* "What Men Live By" (1881)
* "Diary of a Lunatic" (1884)
* "Quench the Spark" (1885)
* "An Old Acquaintance" (1885)
* "Where Love Is, God Is" (1885)
* "Ivan the Fool" (1885)
* "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" (1885)
* "Wisdom of Children" (1885)
* "The Three Hermits" (1886)
* "Promoting a Devil" (1886)
* "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (1886)
* "The Grain" (1886)
* "Repentance" (1886)
* "Croesus and Fate" (1886)
* "Kholstomer" (1886)
* "The Two Brothers and the Gold" (1886)
* "A Lost Opportunity" (1889)
* "A Dialogue Among Clever People" (1892)
* "Walk in the Light While There is Light" (1893)
* "The Coffee-House of Surat" (1893)
* "The Young Tsar" (1894)
* "Master and Man" (1895)
* "Too Dear!" (1897)
* "Work, Death, and Sickness" (1903)
* "Three Questions" (1903)
* "Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fëdor Kuzmich" (1905)
* "Alyosha the Pot" (1905)
* "Father Sergius" (1911)
* "After the Ball" (1911)

Plays|

* The Power of Darkness (1886)
* The First Distiller (1886)
* The Light Shines in the Darkness (1890)
* The Fruits of Enlightenment (1891)
* The Living Corpse (1900)
* The Cause of It All (1910)

Non-fiction|

* A History of Yesterday (1851)
* A Confession (1882)
* The Gospel in Brief (1883)
* What Is to Be Done? (1886)
* The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894)
* What Is Art? (1897)
* "A Letter to a Hindu" (1908)
* The Inevitable Revolution (1909)
* A Calendar of Wisdom (1910)

Family|

* Sophia (wife)
* Alexandra (daughter)
* Ilya (son)
* Lev Lvovich (son)
* Tatyana (daughter)

Life and legacy|

* Yasnaya Polyana
* Tolstoyan movement
* Christian anarchism
* Departure of a Grand Old Man (1912 film)
* Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicholas II (1928 documentary)
* The Last Station (1990 novel)
* 2009 film)

Honors|

* Tolstoy Farm
* Tolstoj quadrangle
* crater

Related|

* The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism (1888)
* Vladimir Chertkov
* Aylmer and Louise Maude
* Translators of Tolstoy
* Tolstoy scholars

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