Master & Man and Other Parables and Tales by Count Leo Tolstoi, 1914 - Antique Tolstoi

Master & Man and Other Parables & Tales is a collection of short stories by Count Leo Tolstoi.

Master and Man was written in 1895, 30 years after War & Peace and has been published many times since. This is a 1914 publication by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. of London and E.P. Dutton of New York.

According to the introduction... "Tolstoi was still a young man when the Crimean War broke out; but we may date from the years of Tchernaya and Sevastopol the change in him, which at length turned him from a novelist into a fabulist and maker of parables. After the war he enjoyed two years of St. Petersburgh society, where his rank and his fame as a soldier and as a writer opened to him all that was most alluring, most likely to attract a man of his temper... He was not satisfied either with what advantage birth and opportunity had given him or with the selfish philosophy he found current. And then, like the king in the parable, he wished to put and to answer the three Essential Questions of the Hour, the Man, and the Deed; in other words, the right time to do or to begin to do; the right man to teach how to do it; and the right thing to be done? But as it was a Hermit in a wood who resolved these three questions for the King, so Tolstoi was driven in working out his destiny to become disown Hermit in a wood." 

BIXLEY NOTES

• Master & Man and Other Parables & Tales

• Written by Count Leo Tolstoi

• Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., of London and E.P. Dutton of New York

• 320 page linen hardcover

• Measures 6 7/8" x 4 3/8"

VINTAGE NOTES

• In great condition for its age

• Binding is nice and tight

• Slight fading on the binding

• A tiny bit of shelf wear on the edges of the covers

• Pages have yellowed a bit but there are no marks that we can see

• See our photographs for more close-up details

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