Book Synopsis: Six Short Masterpieces By Tolstoy is a collection of six representative short stories by one of the world's greatest writers.
TWO HUSSARS
A HAPPY MARRIED LIFE
YARDSTICK
THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH
THE KREUTZER SONATA
AFTER THE BALL
"The stories presented here document the scope, the perseverance, and the acuity of Tolstoy's examination of the actual and the possible relations between a man and the society which gives him his living. Covering nearly fifty years of creative writing (Tolstoy from the age of twenty-eight to seventy-five), they sharpen our understanding of the power of Tolstoy's literary universe..." from the Intorduction by F. D. Reeve
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