Master And Man And Other Stories: Father Sergius; Master And Man; Hadji Murat (Classics) - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140443312 ISBN 13: 9780140443318

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1977

Synopsis

These three stories of Tolstoy's maturity show him increasingly grappling with fundamental issues of religion and morality. In Master and Man he depicts an employer, bent on closing a business deal, travelling with his servant through the swirling snow - little realizing how soon he may have to settle his accounts with his maker. Father Sergius portrays a priest tormented beyond endurance by the longings of his body, while Hadji Murat dramatizes the divided loyalties of a leading figure in Russia's struggle to subdue the Caucasus. With a compelling combination of moral seriousness and extraordinary sympathy and understanding, these stories reveal Tolstoy as a writer at the height of his creative powers.

About this title

About the Author:

Notes Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), the Russian prose writer, is chiefly remembered for his novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Paul Foote was born in Dorset in 1926. He has translated Lermontov's A Hero for Our Time for the Penguin Classics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0140443312
• ISBN 13: 9780140443318
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272