' Although he feared death he could not stop ' If I stopped now after coming all this way
- well they'd call me an idiot!'A pair of short stories about greed charity life & death from one of Russia's most influential writers & thinkers Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Tolstoy's works available in Penguin Classics are Anna Karenina War & Peace Childhood Boyhood Youth The Cossacks & Other Stories The Kreutzer Sonata & Other Stories What is art? Resurrection The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories Master & Man & Other Stories How Much Land Does A Man Need? & Other Stories A Confession & Other Religious Writings & Last steps The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy