What Men Live By and Other Tales (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>What Men Live By and Other Tales is a collection of short stories by Leo Tolstoy that was first published in 1885. What Men Live By is a spiritual tale about a fallen angel who is defiant of the plan of God and is assigned to learn three lessons what is in men, what is not given unto men, and what men live by. The collection includes both not only moral tales but also humorous stories written in the style of fairy tales, such as Three Questions and The Coffee-House of Surat.<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><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.