Master and Man (1895) is among Tolstoy’s most perfectly achieved shorter works. A greedy merchant and his peasant driver become lost in a blizzard while traveling to complete a business deal. As the night grows more desperate, their relationship is transformed by an act of self-sacrifice that embodies Tolstoy’s deepest spiritual convictions about love and death.
Brief, beautiful, and profoundly moving, this novella stands comparison with any of his major works. Download the free EPUB to read one of Russian literature’s most luminous achievements in a single sitting.