The Long Exile, and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy

Overview

The Long Exile, And Other Stories. INTRODUCTION THE contents of the present volume illustrate Count Tolstors versatility to a remarkable degree. His stories for children are marked by the simplicity and sincerity that children demand. What could be more fascinating to a boy than his description of his dogs And is there anything in literature, anywhere, more perfect in its absolute symmetry, its inherent pathos, and its unobtrusive moral than the story called in the original Sod sees the Truth The author himself, while he regards with scant consideration his earlier works, such as War and Peace and Anna Karenina, places this story in the highest rank as complying with the canons of art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781443716536
Publisher:	Addison Press
Publication date:	08/26/2008
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Count Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 on the family estate of Yasnaya Polyana, in the Tula province, where he spent most of his early years, together with his several brothers. In 1844 he entered the University of Kazan to read Oriental Languages and later Law, but left before completing a degree. He spent the following years in a round of drinking, gambling and womanizing, until weary of his idle existence he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus in 1851.

He took part in the Crimean war and after the defence of Sevastopol wrote The Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6), which established his literary reputation. After leaving the army in 1856 Tolstoy spent some time mixing with the literati in St Petersburg before traveling abroad and then settling at Yasnaya Polyana, where he involved himself in the running of peasant schools and the emancipation of the serfs. His marriage to Sofya Andreyevna Behrs in 1862 marked the beginning of a period of contentment centred around family life; they had thirteen children. Tolstoy managed his vast estates, continued his educational projects, cared for his peasants and wrote both his great novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).

During the 1870s he underwent a spiritual crisis, the moral and religious ideas that had always dogged him coming to the fore. A Confession (1879¿82) marked an outward change in his life and works; he became an extreme rationalist and moralist, and in a series of pamphlets written after 1880 he rejected church and state, indicted the demands of flesh, and denounced private property. His teachings earned him numerous followers in Russia and abroad, and also led finally to his excommunication by the Russian Holy Synod in 1901. In 1910 at the age of eighty-two he fled from home "leaving this worldly life in order to live out my last days in peace and solitude;" he died some days later at the station master's house at Astapovo.

Author biography courtesy of Penguin Books LTD.

Date of Birth:

September 9, 1828

Date of Death:

November 2, 1910

Place of Birth:

Tula Province, Russia

Place of Death:

Astapovo, Russia

Education:

Privately educated by French and German tutors; attended the University of Kazan, 1844-47

Table of Contents

	The Long Exilk	1
	What Men Live by	12
	Yermak, the Conqueror of Siberia	40
	Desire Stronger than Necessity	50
	Stories of My Dogs	61
I.	Bulka	61
II.	Bulka and the Wild Boar	62
III.	Pheasants	65
IV.	Milton and Bulka	66
V.	The Turtle	68
VI.	Bulka and the Wolf	69
VII.	What happened to Bulka at Pyetigorsk	71
VIII.	The End of Bulka and Milton	74
	Early Days	76
I.	The Old Horse	76
II.	How I was taught to ride Horseback	78
	Scenes from Common Life	82
I.	The Willow	82
II.	The Gray Hare	84
III.	The Foundling	85
IV.	The Peasant and the Cucumbers	86
V.	The Fire	87
VI.	The Treasure Trove	89
VII.	The Bird	90
VIII.	How Uncle Semyon told about his Adventure in the Woods	92
IX.	The Cow	93
X.	Filipok	96
	Stories from Physics	99
I.	The Magnet	99
II.	Humidity	101
III.	Different Degrees of Coherence	102
IV.	Crystals	103
V.	Bad Air	105
VI.	How Air Ballons are made	109
VII.	Galvanism	111
VIII.	Solar Heat	114
	Tales from Zoology	117
I.	The Owl and the Hare	117
II.	How Wolves teach their Cubs	118
III.	Hares and Wolves	118
IV.	Scent	119
V.	Touch and Sight	121
VI.	The Silkworm	122
	Stories from Botany	128
I.	My Apple Trees	128
II.	The Old Poplar	129
III.	The Bird Cherry Tree	130
IV.	How Trees walk	132
	Fables	134
I.	The Head and Tail of the Serpent	134
II.	Fine Threads	134
III.	The Division of the Inheritance	135
IV.	The Monkey	135
V.	The Monkey and the Peas	136
VI.	The Milch Cow	136
VII.	The Duck and the Moon	136
VIII.	The Wolf in the Dust	137
IX.	The Mouse under the Granary	137
X.	The Very Best Pear	138
XI.	The Falcon and the Cock	138
XII.	The Jackals and the Elephant	139
XIII.	The Heron, the Fishes, and the Crab	139
XIV.	The Wolf and the Bow	140
XV.	The Blind Man and the Milk	141
XVI.	The Wolf and the Bow	142
XVII.	The Birds in the Snare	142
XVIII.	The Tsar and the Falcon	143
XIX.	The Tsar and the Elephants	144
XX.	Why there is Evil in the World	145
XXI.	The Wolf and the Huntsmen	147
XXII.	Two Peasants	147
XXIII.	The Peasant and the Horse	148
XXIV.	The Two Horses	149
XXV.	The Ax and the Saw	149
XXVI.	The Dogs and the Cook	150
XXVII.	The Hare and the Hound	150
XXVIII.	The Oak and the Hazel Bush	151
XXIX.	The Setting Hen and the Chickens	152
XXX.	The Quail and his Mate	152
XXXI.	The Cow and the Goat	153
XXXII.	The Fox's Brush	154
	From the New Speller	155
I.	The Wolf and the Kids	155
II.	The Farmer's Wife and the Cat	155
III.	The Crow and the Eagle	155
IV.	The Mouse and the Frog	156
V.	The Vainglorious Cockerel	156
VI.	The Ass and the Lion	157
VII.	The Fool and his Knife	157
VIII.	The Boy Driver	158
IX.	Life Dull without Song	158
X.	The Squirrel and the Wolf	158
XI.	Uncle Matya's Horse	159
XII.	The Book	159
XIII.	The Wolf and the Fox	160
XIV.	The Peasant and his Horse	160
XV.	The Eagle and the Sow	161
XVI.	The Load	161
XVII.	The Big Oven	162
	Yasnaya Polyana School	164
I.	General Sketch of the School	164
II.	The Opening of School	167
III.	The Appearance of the Room	168
IV.	The Classes	169
V.	The Free Development of the School	171
VI.	A School-Boy Fight	173
VII.	Discipline	176
VIII.	The Thief	177
IX.	Marks	180
X.	Afternoon Session	181
XI.	The End of the Hour	183
XII.	The Evening Session	186
XIII.	A Walk through the Woods	187
XIV.	Utility and Beauty	191
XV.	Proshchai and Proschaite	193
XVI.	Objections answered	195
XVII.	The Quality of the Scholars	196
XVIII.	How Parents regard the School	199
XIX.	Mechanical Reading	202
XX.	Experiments	205
XXI.	Graded Reading	210
XXII.	The Possible Cause and Possible Help	215
XXIII.	How the Pupils learned to write	219
XXIV.	Self-Improvement in Writing	221
XXV.	The Teaching of Grammar	223
XXVI.	The Writing of Compositions	229
XXVII.	Specimens of Compositions	231
XXVIII.	Recitations and Examinations	234
XXIX.	The Spirit of the School	240
XXX.	Bible Stories	243
XXXI.	The Bible for Children	249
XXXII.	Russian History	256
XXXIII.	A First Lesson in History	263
XXXIV.	An Experiment in Russian History	268
XXXV.	Geography	272
XXXVI.	The Arts	281
XXXVII.	Drawing	288
XXXVIII.	Singing	292
	Who should learn Writing of whom; Peasant Children of us, or we of Peasant Children	301
	A Dialogue among Clever People	335
	Walk in the Light while there is Light	340