Master and Man (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- First Published: 1896
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: The 1870's
- Setting: Provincial Russia
- Principal Characters: Vasili Andrevich Brekhunov, Nikita
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Sin or Original sin, Greed, Money, Materialism
- Locales: Russia
The Story
Brekhunov has a passion to acquire a grove of oak trees in the nearby village of Gorachkin. He fears that unless he gets there as soon as possible, someone else will buy it before he can. The enterprising Brekhunov intends to have the trees cut down to make into sledge-runners; the leftovers will be sold for firewood. From this deal, he hopes to realize a tidy profit. He figures that the grove of trees is worth more than twenty thousand rubles. The owner is asking only ten thousand but will probably take seven thousand, with three thousand on account. Brekhunov will...
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