The Forged Coupon and Other Stories (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

Product Description <br/>Published posthumously, The Forged Coupon (1904) is the last novella by Leo Tolstoy. It is the story of Stepan, who lives a life of evil and crime. Out to murder and torture, he is jolted into reality as one of his victims refuses to seek mercy. Now he is faced with two choices: whether to continue his life of crime or to face the consequences of his evil ways.<br/> About the Author <br/>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.