How Much Land Does a Man Need? (Penguin Little Black Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy is quite on-trend in the UK at the moment. With the BBC adaptation of War and Peace currently airing, I seem to be coming across many people who are reading his novels or, at the very least, wanting to discuss them. I’ll be honest: I’ve never read War and Peace (I know, I know). It’s downloaded on my tablet, and has been sitting there, judging me, for over a year. Similarly, Anna Karenina looks out at me from my bookcase, wondering if it will ever get read. However, I actually do have a contribution to the ongoing conversation about Tolstoy in the form of a post about two of his short stories: ‘How Much Land Does a Man Need?’ (considered by James Joyce to be the “greatest story that the literature of the world knows”) and ‘What Men Live By’. Read more
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