Master and Man by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Paperback Book

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Author: Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Wildside Press

Published: Sep 2014

Genre: Fiction - Classics

Pages: 68

Synopsis

A land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to the house of the owner of a forest. He is impatient and wishes to get to the town more quickly "for business" (purchasing the forest before other contenders can get there). They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice wishes to press on. They eventually get lost off the road and they try to camp. The peasant soon finds himself about to die from hypothermia. After leaving his peasant to perish, and returning to the same place he had fled from, the master attains a spiritual/moral revelation, and Tolstoy once again repeats one of his famous themes: that the only true happiness in life is found by living for others.

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