Tolstoy's Best Short Stories
Annotated

Leo Nikolaivich Tolstoy was born on September 9th, 1828, at his father's estate, Yasnaya Polyana. After publication of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina," Tolstoy became known as the finest Russian author of the nineteenth century. Before you are his 20 greatest short stories for the first time in one collection. Tolstoy's best tales are filled with tales of love, war, royalty and poverty. Annotations are included of difficult Russian terms. The classic stories included are:

A Candle 
After the Dance 
Albert 
Alyosha the Pot 
An Old Acquaintance 
Does a Man Need Much Land?
If You Neglect the Fire You Don't Put It Out
Khodinka: An Incident of the Coronation of Nicholas II 
Lucerne 
Memoirs of a Lunatic 
My Dream 
Recollections of a Scorer 
The Empty Drum
The Long Exile 
The Posthumous Papers of the Hermit Fedor Kusmich 
The Young Tsar 
There Are No Guilty People 
Three Deaths 
Two Old Men
What Men Live By