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Original Title:	What Men Live By and Other Tales
ISBN:	1419193570 (ISBN13: 9781419193576)
Edition Language:	English

What Men Live by and Other Tales Paperback | Pages: 56 pages

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. - What Men Live by - Three Questions - The Coffee-House of Surat - How Much Land Does a Man Need?

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Title	:	What Men Live by and Other Tales
Author	:	Leo Tolstoy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 56 pages
Published	:	June 17th 2004 by Kessinger Publishing (first published 1885)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Short Stories. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature

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Ratings: 4.13 From 1870 Users | 157 Reviews

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Brilliant!

My first Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy(Leo Tolstoy) book and I liked this short and quick read. It is a collection of 4 short stories packed with morality and big rhetorical/philosophical questions humans ask themselves often. The four stories are What Men Live ByThree QuestionsThe Coffee-House of SuratHow Much Land Does a Man Need?I enjoyed reading the first and the last one more than the other two. There is some timeless wisdom in the message the author is trying to convey. The writing is as simple

Much different to what I'm used to when I read Russian literature.I suppose it's a radical-Dostoevsky. With a lack of gun fights.

As in each of his writings, in these three stories (What Men Live By, The Coffee House of Surat And How Much Land Does a Man Need?) Tolstoy shows his great ability to describe environments, characters, landscapes, desires, anxieties and takes advantage of any situation to generate a story less enjoyable and give the reader a moral, a lesson and a reflection process associated with ethics and Christian customs. At the time when these stories were written is clear and explicit belief (?

And God said: 'Go-take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man, and What men live by.'Learn what dwells in man.' And I understood that in man dwells Love!Now I learnt what is not given him. It is not given to man to know his own needs.And when the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God and understood What men live by.In this book there are things you cannot hear anywhere

What Men Live By: ***Three Questions: ****The Coffee House of Surat: ***How Much Land Does a Man Need?: ****A nice collection of 4 short stories by Tolstoy. They were written towards his twilight years, which means his religious and socio-political views are unabashedly transparent. He just about trounces you over the head with them. Amazingly enough, I enjoyed them despite not really buying into his weltanschauung, not in a religious sense, nor in a socio-political sense. But damn, I really