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Leo Nikolaivich Tolstoy was born on September 9th, 1828, at his father's estate, Yasnaya Polyana. After publication of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina," Tolstoy became known as the greatest Russian author of the nineteenth century. For the first time in one collection are the 20 greatest short stories of Leo Tolstoy. Annotations are included of difficult Russian terms and 35 illustrations are provided that give a snapshot of Russia and its people in the late nineteenth century. Here are the stories included: A Candle, After the Dance, Albert, Alyosha the Pot, An Old Acquaintance, Does a Man Need Much Land?, If You Neglect the Fire You Don't Put It Out, Khodinka: An Incident of the Coronation of Nicholas II, Lucerne, Memoirs of a Lunatic, My Dream, Recollections of a Scorer, The Empty Drum, The Long Exile, The Posthumous Papers of the Hermit Fedor Kusmich, The Young Tsar, There Are No Guilty People, Three Deaths, Two Old Men, and What Men Live By. Tolstoy's short stories are filled with tales of love, war, royalty and poverty. They are as relevant today as they were 150 years ago. Leo Tolstoy is a fantastic writer and the stories in this book reflect this fact twenty times over. Read the 20 greatest stories of Leo Tolstoy Today!