The Project Gutenberg eBook, Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales, by Leo Tolstoy, Edited by Leo Wiener, Translated by Leo Wiener

Title: Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Editor: Leo Wiener

Release Date: November 15, 2011 [eBook #38025]

Language: English

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The Complete Works of
COUNT TOLSTÓY
Volume XII.

"The clerk beat Sidor's face until the blood came"
Photogravure from Painting by A. Kivshénko

FABLES FOR CHILDREN ⚘ STORIES FOR CHILDREN ⚘ NATURAL SCIENCE STORIES ⚘ POPULAR EDUCATION ⚘ DECEMBRISTS ⚘ MORAL TALES ⚘ ⚘ ⚘

By COUNT LEV N. T́OLSTÓY

Translated from the Original Russian and Edited by

LEO WIENER

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University

BOSTON ⚘ DANA ESTES & COMPANY ⚘ PUBLISHERS

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EDITION DE LUXE

Limited to One Thousand Copies, of which this is No. 411

Copyright, 1904
By Dana Estes & Company

Entered at Stationers' Hall

Colonial Press: Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

CONTENTS

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FABLES FOR CHILDREN

• Æsop's Fables  3
• Adaptations and Imitations of Hindoo Fables  19

STORIES FOR CHILDREN

• The Foundling  39
• The Peasant and the Cucumbers  40
• The Fire  41
• The Old Horse  43
• How I Learned to Ride  46
• The Willow  49
• Búlka  51
• Búlka and the Wild Boar  53
• Pheasants  56
• Milton and Búlka  58
• The Turtle  60
• Búlka and the Wolf  62
• What Happened to Búlka in Pyatigórsk  65
• Búlka's and Milton's End  68
• The Gray Hare  70
• God Sees the Truth, but Does Not Tell at Once  72
• Hunting Worse than Slavery  82
• A Prisoner of the Caucasus