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Dieci racconti raccolti in questo volume dimostrano la bravura artistica di Tolstoj mostrata in cinque decenni, sperimentando stili di prosa e attingendo alle proprie esperienze con umorismo, realismo e compassione. Ispirato dalle sue esperienze nell'esercito, ''I due ussari'' contrappone un padre affascinante e il figlio meschino. Illustrando la convinzione di Tolstoj che l'arte debba avere uno scopo morale, ''Di cosa vivono gli uomini'' ritrae un angelo mandato sulla Terra per apprendere tre regole esistenziali della vita, e ''Due vecchi'' mostra un contadino che abbandona il suo pellegrinaggio in Terra Santa per aiutare i suoi vicini. E nel toccante ''Padrone e servo'', Tolstoj raffigura un mercante mercenario che viaggia con il suo servo impassibile attraverso una tormenta di neve per concludere un affare, senza sapere che presto potrebbe dover saldare i conti con il suo creatore.
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Count Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University in 1844. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty in the army, serving as a junior officer in the Crimean War before retiring in 1857. In 1862, Tolstoy married Sophie Behrs, a marriage that was to become, for him, bitterly unhappy. His diary, started in 1847, was used for self-study and self-criticism; it served as the source from which he drew much of the material that appeared not only in his great novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina(1877), but also in his shorter works. Seeking religious justification for his life, Tolstoy evolved a new Christianity based upon his own interpretation of the Gospels. Yasnaya Polyana became a mecca for his many converts. At the age of eighty-two, while away from home, the writer suffered a break down in his health in Astapovo, Riazan, and he died there on November 20, 1910.
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