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    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "The Long Exile"
    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "The Long Exile"
    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "The Long Exile"
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    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "The Long Exile"

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    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "The Long Exile," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535838047
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      A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "The Long Exile" - Gale

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      The Long Exile

      Leo Tolstoy

      1872

      Introduction

      Leo Tolstoy's The Long Exile is a work of short fiction about injustice and forgiveness. It is the story of a man, Aksenof, who embarks on a journey to a fair in another village and is subsequently arrested for a murder he did not commit. He is exiled to Siberia for his punishment, where he lives for twentysix years working in the mines there. When the man who actually committed the murder is also sent to the same prison on other charges, Aksenof soon suspects that the man is the true killer. The man threatens to kill Aksenof at one point but is soon overcome with remorse and asks for Aksenof's forgiveness. Aksenof dies peacefully shortly after this exchange, passing away before the order for his release that has resulted from the murderer's confession has been handed down.

      The Long Exile was originally published in Russian in 1872 under the title Bog pravdu vidit, da ne skoro skazhet, or God Sees the Truth, but Bides His Time, alternately rendered as God Sees the Truth, but Waits. The short story was published first in the journal Beseda and later in 1872 in the Primer, which Tolstoy published for children. The Long Exile was published in English in 1888 in The Long Exile, and Other Stories for Children and is also available in other collections, including Leo Tolstoy's Twenty Greatest Short Stories Annotated, published in 2009.

      Author Biography

      Tolstoy, whose name is also rendered in English as Tolstoi, was born Leo Nicolaivich Tolstoy, on September 9, 1828, in Russia's Tula Province. Tolstoy's first name is also commonly transliterated as Lev or Lyof. (Tolstoy's birthday is sometimes listed as August 28, in accordance with the Julian calendar. The discrepancy derives from the differences in the two calendars that were used during this time period, the Gregorian and Julian. The Julian calendar was established during the reign of Julius Caesar, in 45 BCE. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered the Julian calendar to be altered to adjust for the slight misalignment of the Julian calendar with the solar calendar. Russia, however, did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1918). Tolstoy was

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