Strider: The Story of a Horse (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Product Description Strider: The Story of a Horse (1886) is a remarkable story by Russian novelist and philosopher Leo Tolstoy. The story is an interior monologue by a horse that contrasts the life of the noble horse with that of his selfish owner. About the Author Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher noted for his ideas of nonviolent resistance. His diary reveals an incessant pursuit of a morally justified life. He was known for his generosity to the peasants.His best known novels are War and Peace (1869), which Tolstoy regarded as an epic rather than a novel, and Anna Karenina (1877). His work was admired in his time by Dostoyevsky, Checkov, Turgenev, and Flaubert, and later by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.