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    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
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    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"

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    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," 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 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535825078
    A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"

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      How Much Land Does a Man Need?

      Leo Tolstoy

      1886

      Introduction

      How Much Land Does a Man Need? is a short story by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1886. It was first translated into English by Aline Delano as How Much Land a Man Needs in In the Pursuit of Happiness (1887). A translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude appeared in Twenty-three Tales in 1906 and was reprinted many times. The story can also be found in How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories (1994), edited by A. N. Wilson in the Penguin Classics series. An abridged (and less effective) version of the story appears in The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories, edited by William J. Bennett (1993).

      How Much Land Does a Man Need? is Tolstoy's retelling of a Russian folktale about one peasant's greed for land. It is one of about twenty short stories that Tolstoy wrote in the 1880s. These stories were published in cheap editions, as Tolstoy intended them to be read and enjoyed by the common people. He also believed that literature should teach people how to live; it should contain a moral lesson. This didactic purpose is clear in How Much Land Does a Man Need?, but the story is more than a moral parable. It is also a compelling, tightly organized short story by a literary master that moves inexorably to its chilling conclusion.

      Author Biography

      Leo Tolstoy was born on August 28, 1828, at Yasnaya Polyana, an estate in Tula province, Russia. Both his parents died before he was nine years old. The young Tolstoy was not a good student, failing his entrance examinations at Kazan University in 1844 but passing them some months later. He decided to study law, but dropped out of the university's law school in 1847. As a young man he led a rather wild life, accumulating heavy gambling debts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. But he did make efforts to improve the lives of the peasants on his estate and even started a school for their children.

      In 1852, Tolstoy's first literary work, Childhood, was published. In

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