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Twenty-Three Tales

Entity ID:

twenty-three-tales-(tolstoy)

Long Name:

Twenty-Three Tales

Short Name:

Twenty-Three Tales

Disambiguation String:

short stories

Entity Type:

work

Entity Subtype:

book

Summary:

Famous for his longer novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy displays his mastery of the short story in Twenty-Three Tales. This volume is organized by topic into seven different segments. Part I is filled with stories for children, while Part 2 is filled with popular stories for adult. In Part 3, Tolstoy discreetly condemns capitalism in his fairy tale "Ivan the Fool." Part 4 contains several short stories, which were originally published with illustrations to encourage the inexpensive reproduction of pictorial works. Part 5 features a number of Russian folk tales, which address the themes of greed, societal conflict, prayer, and virtue. Part 6 contains two French short stories, which Tolstoy translated and modified. Finally, Part 7 contains a group of parabolic short stories that Tolstoy dedicated to the Jews of Russia, who were persecuted in the early 1900's. Entertaining for all ages, Tolstoy's creative short stories are overflowing with deeper, often spiritual, meaning.

Emmalon Davis
CCEL Staff Writer

Is An Individual:

No

Is Published:

Yes

Original Language:

rus

LCCN:

PG3366

ISBN:

9781610252096

CCEL URL:

//ccel.org/ccel/tolstoy/23_tales.html

LC Subjects:

All; Fiction; Proofed;

Creators:

Creator: Leo Tolstoy, Relator: aut, Creator ID: 25057