Master and Man | Short Story | Leo Tolstoy

Mater and Man was written by Leo Tolstoy. He was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Leo Tolstoy was born to a rich Russian family in 1828, He's best Known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), typically cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He initial achieved literary acclaim in his twenties together with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), primarily based upon his experiences within the war. Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens of short stories and several other novellas like The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and pilgrim Murad. He conjointly wrote plays and various philosophical essays.

On this short tale, a land proprietor named vasili andreevich brekhunov takes along certainly one of his peasants, nikita, for a short adventure to the residence of the proprietor of a woodland. He is impatient and desires to get to the metropolis more speedy 'for business' (shopping the forest before different contenders can get there). They locate themselves in the center of a blizzard, however the grasp in his avarice wishes to press on. They eventually wander off off the street and they are trying to camp. 

The master's peasant quickly reveals himself approximately to die from hypothermia. After leaving his peasant to die, and returning to the equal place he had fled from, the grasp attains a spiritual/moral revelation, and tolstoy once more repeats one in all his well-known issues: that the most effective genuine happiness in existence is found through living for others. The grasp then lies on pinnacle of the peasant to maintain him warm via the bloodless night time. Vasili is too exposed to the cold even though and dies. Nikita's existence is saved, but he loses three of his feet to frostbite.

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