The Two Old Men: A short story by Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy, Leo

ISBN 10: 2382749482 / ISBN 13: 9782382749487

Published by Culturea, 2022

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The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Two Old Men: A short story by Leo Tolstoy
• Publisher: Culturea
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2382749482
• ISBN 13: 9782382749487
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Leo Tolstoy's story Two Old Men tells the tale of two men, Efim and Elisha, who decide that before they die they must make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. After months of planning, they collect what they will need and begin to walk. After a long day on the road, they come to a village that seems deserted. No one is about, and seeing a small hut, they look in to see what has happened. They enter its darkness and smell ... "Two Old Men" ("Два старика") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy written in 1885. It is a religious piece that was translated to English by Leo Wiener in 1904. The story is the retold in a sermon by Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast, who concludes his retelling with, "Who really got the goal of pilgrimage?" The story is included in numerous Tolstoy collections, such as "Twenty Three Tales" (1924) and "Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories" (2009).

About the Author

Leo Wiener (1862-1939) was an American historian, linguist, author and translator. Major works French Words in Wolfram Von Eschenbach. 1893. Popular poetry of the Russian Jews. 1898. The history of Yiddish literature in the nineteenth century. 1899. The Ferrara Bible. 1900. Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. 1902-1903. Gypsies as fortune-tellers and as blacksmiths. 1909. Philological fallacies: one in romance, another in Germanic. 1914. Commentary to the Germanic laws and mediaeval documents. 1915. An Interpretation of the Russian People. 1915. (translator) of Josef Svatopluk Machar's (1916). Magdalen. Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture. 1917-1921. Africa and the discovery of America. 1922. Vols. I-III.[10] The contemporary drama of Russia. 1924.