The master and the servant

This volume includes, in addition to the story "The Master and the Servant," which is perhaps the strangest thing Tolstoy wrote in its evocative ability and which constitutes a true document from the comprehensive world literature, a collection of tales and folk stories that range from 1895 to 1909 (that is, a year before the author's death), most of which belong to the educational genre adopted by the author of "Anna Karenina" about fifteen years earlier. And let us say: we have added to it some texts inspired by or directly imitated by other writers, especially "Maupassant," such as "Inn and Seraat," "Buddha," "Karma," "Forty Years," and "Excessive Price," which are therefore included. At the end of this volume, although they were written earlier than the stories called folk tales. The same applies to the story "My Life," which is not by Tolstoy, but by a peasant woman named "Anisia" who lived then in "Khot Shaki," near "Iya Snaia Polyana," and who experienced both good and bad times, followed her exiled husband to Siberia, then became a widow, and ended up marrying a church servant. "Anisia" was good at storytelling, like many Russian peasants, and therefore the Countess Tolstoy's sister, "Tatyana Kuzminski," who listened to her happily, collected her story. Translator: Siah Al-Jahim Publisher: Dar Al-Mada Number of pages: 496