基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：336 页
出版日期：2005年12月
ISBN：0140449620
条形码：9780140449624
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：《主与仆》及其它故事

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The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, "The Two Hussars" contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoy's belief that art must serve a moral purpose, "What Men Live By" portrays an angel sent to earth to learn three existential rules of life, and "Two Old Men" shows a peasant abandoning his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in order to help his neighbours. And in the highly moving "Master and Man", Tolstoy depicts a mercenary merchant travelling with his unprotesting servant through a blizzard to close a business deal little realizing he may soon have to settle accounts with his maker.
作者简介 Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was the author of two of literature’s greatest novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Ronald Wilks has translated works by Gorky, Gogol, and Chekhov for Penguin Classics.
Hugh McLean has published widely on Russian literature.
Paul Foote was, until his retirement, a university lecturer in Russian and fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford.