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    What Men Live By and Other Tales
    What Men Live By and Other Tales
    What Men Live By and Other Tales
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    What Men Live By and Other Tales

    By Leo Tolstoy

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    Classic Russian short stories. According to Wikipedia: "As a fiction writer, Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455358458
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    Leo Tolstoy

    Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is the author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and other classics of Russian literature.

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      What Men Live By and Other Tales - Leo Tolstoy

      WHAT MEN LIVE BY AND OTHER TALES BY LEO TOLSTOY

      published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

      established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

      Works by Leo Tolstoy

      Father Sergius

      Master and Man

      What Men Live by and Other Tales

      The Forged Coupon and Other Stories

      The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

      Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth

      The Cossacks, a Tale of 1852

      War and Peace

      Anna Karenina

      Resurrection

      feedback welcome: info@samizdat.com

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      What Men Live By

      Three Questions

      The Coffee-House of Surat

      How Much Land Does a Man Need?

      What Men Live By

      We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren.  He that loveth not abideth in death. --1 Epistle St. John iii. 14.

      Whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth. --iii. 17-18.

      Love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. -iv. 7-8.

      No man hath beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abideth in us. --iv. 12.

      God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him. --iv. 16.

      If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?  --iv. 20.

      A shoemaker named Simon, who had neither house nor land of his own, lived with his wife and children in a peasant's hut, and earned his living by his work.  Work was cheap, but bread was dear, and what he earned he spent for food.  The man and his wife had but one sheepskin coat between them for winter wear, and even that was torn to tatters, and this was the second year he had been wanting to buy sheep-skins for a new coat.  Before winter Simon saved up a little money: a three-rouble note lay hidden in his wife's box, and five roubles and twenty kopeks were owed him by customers in the village.

      So one morning he prepared to go to the village to buy the sheep- skins.  He put on over his shirt his wife's wadded nankeen jacket, and over that he put his own cloth coat.  He took the three-rouble note in his pocket, cut himself a stick to serve as a staff, and started off after breakfast.  I'll collect the five roubles that are due to me, thought he, add the three I have got, and that will be enough to buy sheep-skins for the winter coat.

      He came to the village and called at a peasant's hut, but the man was not at home.  The peasant's wife promised that the money should be paid next week, but she would not pay it herself.  Then Simon called on another peasant, but this one swore he had no money, and would only pay twenty kopeks which he owed for a pair of boots Simon had mended.  Simon then tried to buy the sheep-skins on credit, but the dealer would not trust him.

      Bring your money, said he, then you may have your pick of the skins.  We know what debt-collecting is like.  So all the business the shoemaker did was to get the twenty kopeks for boots he had mended, and to take a pair of felt boots a peasant gave him to sole with leather.

      Simon felt downhearted.  He spent the twenty kopeks on vodka, and started homewards without having bought any skins.  In the morning he had felt the frost; but now, after drinking the vodka, he felt warm, even without a sheep-skin coat.  He trudged along, striking his stick on the frozen earth with one hand, swinging the felt boots with the other, and talking to himself.

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      I'm quite warm, said he, though I have no sheep-skin coat.  I've had a drop, and it runs through all my veins.  I need no sheep- skins.  I go along and don't worry about anything.  That's the sort of man I am! What do I care? I can live without sheep-skins.  I don't need them.  My wife will fret, to be sure.  And, true enough, it is a shame; one works all day long, and then does not get paid. Stop a bit! If you don't bring that money along, sure enough I'll skin you, blessed if I don't.  How's that? He pays twenty kopeks at a time! What can I do with twenty kopeks? Drink it-that's all one can do! Hard up, he says he is! So he may be--but what about me? You have a house, and cattle, and everything; I've only what I stand up in! You have corn of your own growing; I have to buy every grain. Do what I will, I must spend three roubles every week for bread alone.  I come home and find the bread all used up, and I have to fork out another rouble and a half.  So just pay up what you owe, and no nonsense about it!

      By this time he had nearly reached the shrine at the bend of the road.  Looking up, he saw something whitish behind the shrine.  The daylight was fading, and the shoemaker peered at the thing without being able to make out what

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