Short Fiction Leo Tolstoy , translated by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Nathan Haskell Dole, Constance Garnett, J. D. Duff, Leo Wiener, R. S. Townsend, Hagberg Wright, Benjamin Tucker, Everyman’s Library, Vladimir Chertkov, Isabella Fyvie Mayo
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Short Fiction by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Nathan Haskell Dole, Constance Garnett, J. D. Duff, Leo Wiener, R. S. Townsend, Hagberg Wright, Benjamin Tucker, Everyman’s Library, Vladimir Chertkov, Isabella Fyvie Mayo. The text is in the US public domain, from the Standard Ebooks edition . Served from our own copy; read on their site for the full edition with images and typography.
First published in 2003 .
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