Master & Man and Other Parables and Tales by Count Leo Tolstoi, 1914 - Antique Tolstoi

Master & Man and Other Parables & Tales is a collection of short stories by Count Leo Tolstoi. Master and Man was written in 1895, 30 years after War & Peace and has been published many times since. This is a 1914 publication by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. of London and E.P. Dutton of New York. According to the introduction... "Tolstoi was still a young man when the Crimean War broke out; but we may date from the years of Tchernaya and Sevastopol the change in him, which at length turned him from a novelist into a fabulist and maker of parables. After the war he enjoyed two years of St. Petersburgh society, where his rank and his fame as a soldier and as a writer opened to him all that was most alluring, most likely to attract a man of his temper... He was not satisfied either with what advantage birth and opportunity had given him or with the selfish philosophy he found current. And then, like the king in the parable, he wished to put and to answer the three Essential Questi