Twenty-three Tales (Annotated)

Twenty-three Tales gathers Tolstoy's short moral narratives, parables, and realist sketches into a compact panorama of his ethical imagination. Written in lucid, deceptively simple prose, these stories move between peasant life, military adventure, folklore, and Christian allegory, often turning on questions of greed, forgiveness, violence, and spiritual awakening. In the context of nineteenth-cen...