num_pages: 112
description: Drawing on the tragic past of Russia and its empire to comment on the issues and ideas of his day, Leo Tolstoy wrote the stories in Divine and Human and Other Stories during the chaos surrounding the 1905 revolution. These stories, presented together for the first time, show the depth of, and contradictions in, Tolstoy's thought as he tried to reconcile his harsh religious beliefs with humanist appeals for justice. Taken as a whole, the collection is a revealing look at the complex life and thought of a literary giant.
language: English
title: Divine and Human and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Divine and Human and Other Stories (European Classics)
characters: Jozef Migurski, Nikolai Semenych, Danilo Lifanov, Anatolii Svetlogub, Tobacco Power, Ignatii Mezhenetskii, Albina Migurska, Rosolowski
genres: Fiction, Classics, Short Stories, Russia
ratings_count: 20
places: Russia
publisher: Northwestern University Press