Master and Man - Softcover

Master and Man is a classic Russian short story by the great Russian bard, Leo Tolstoy, which is a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of ambition and greed. In Master and Man, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to the house of the owner of a forest. He is impatient and wishes to get to the town more quickly 'for business' (purchasing the forest before other contenders can get there). They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice wishes to press on. They eventually get lost off the road and they try to camp. The master's peasant soon finds himself about to die from hypothermia. After leaving his peasant to die, and returning to the same place he had fled from, the master attains a spiritual/moral revelation, and Tolstoy once again repeats one of his famous themes: that the only true happiness in life is found by living for others.

This classic text by the great Russian bard, Tolstoy, is a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of ambition and greed.