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How Much Land Does A Man Need?

How Much Land Does A Man Need? - Thryft
How Much Land Does A Man Need? - Thryft

Greed consumes even the most content souls.

"How Much Land Does A Man Need?" is a gripping short story that showcases the danger of greed and ambition. Tolstoy's writing is vivid and thought-provoking, leaving the reader pondering the ultimately tragic consequences of the protagonist's insatiable desire for more land."

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

How Much Land Does A Man Need?

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ISBN: 9780141397740

Description

'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!'

A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Tolstoy's works available in Penguin Classics are Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth,The Cossacks and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, What is art?, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, Master and Man and Other Stories, How Much Land Does A Man Need? & Other Stories, A Confession and Other Religious Writings and Last steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy.


Author: Leo Tolstoy
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 64
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 26 Feb 2015
 

Greed consumes even the most content souls.

"How Much Land Does A Man Need?" is a gripping short story that showcases the danger of greed and ambition. Tolstoy's writing is vivid and thought-provoking, leaving the reader pondering the ultimately tragic consequences of the protagonist's insatiable desire for more land."

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.