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Master and Man

Leo, graf Tolstoy

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  • Book language: English
  • 51 pages

"Master and Man" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy. It follows a wealthy merchant and his peasant servant on a winter journey, where a snowstorm tests their bond and exposes themes of greed, duty, and compassion. It is worth hearing for its spare moral drama and psychological depth.

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MASTER AND MAN
By Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude
Contents
I
It happened in the ‘seventies in winter, on the day
after St. Nicholas’s Day. There was a fete in the parish
and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second
Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church,
and had also to entertain his relatives and friends at
home.
But when the last of them had gone he at once began to

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Contents

  1. MASTER AND MAN
  2. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude
  3. Contents
  4. I
  5. II
  6. III
  7. IV
  8. V
  9. VI
  10. VII
  11. VIII
  12. IX
  13. X
  14. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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