Master and Man

A short story by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, in which the greedy merchant Vasili Andreevich sets out with his laborer Nikita on a winter sledge journey to close a land deal, driving into deepening cold and snow.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic short stories›Russian and Eastern European›Turn of the century to the 1920s, 1880 to 1929

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Bibliophiles›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic short stories›Russian and Eastern European