Three Questions
A king decides that if he knew the right time to act, the right people to listen to and the most important thing to do, he would never fail.
Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer whose stories often explore moral choices, compassion, and the lives of ordinary people. Here you can read or listen to his stories, including “Three Questions” and “What Men Live By”; every story is free to read or to listen to in a natural voice.
God Sees the Truth, But Waits
A young merchant, Aksionov, is wrongly convicted of a murder and sent to Siberia.
The Coffee-House of Surat
In a coffee-house in Surat, travellers from every corner of the world fall to arguing about whose God is the true one: a Persian, a Hindu, a Jew, a Catholic, a…
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Pahom, a peasant, believes that with enough land he would fear nothing, not even the Devil.
What Men Live By
A poor shoemaker finds a naked stranger by a roadside shrine in winter and takes him home.
Master and Man
A greedy merchant sets out by sleigh with his servant Nikita to close a deal before a rival, straight into a blizzard.
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