What Men Live By, and Other Tales
By Leo Tolstoy (translated by Aylmer Maude and Louise Maude)
Cover: Izba (Hut in a wheat field) (1860s), oil by Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1897)
Tolstoy's late folk-style stories in Aylmer Maude's translation, including 'What Men Live By' and 'How Much Land Does a Man Need?'. A shoemaker, a peasant and a wandering angel meet simple dilemmas. Plain, moral and moving.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.