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

Leo Tolstoy · translated by Leo Wiener

The opening of the work introduces a series of fables adapted from Aesop and other traditions.

"Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education…" by Count Lev N. Tolstoy is a collection of children's fables and stories. The opening of the work introduces a series of fables adapted from Aesop and other traditions.

This edition is the English translation by Leo Wiener.

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A Hermit was living in the forest, and the animals were not afraid of him. He and the animals talked together and understood each other.

Once the Hermit lay down under a tree, and a Raven a Dove, a Stag, and a Snake gathered in the same place, to pass the night. The animals began to discuss why there was evil in the world.

"All the evil in the world comes from hunger. When I eat my fill, I sit down on a branch and croak a little, and it is all jolly and good, and everything gives me pleasure; but let me just go without eating a day or two, and everything palls on me so that I do not feel like looking at God's world. And something draws me on, and I fly from place to place, and have no rest. When I catch a glimpse of some meat, it makes me only feel sicker than ever, and I make for it without much thinking. At times they throw sticks and stones at me, and the wolves and dogs grab me, but I do not give in. Oh, how many of my brothers are perishing through hunger! All evil comes from hunger."

Contents

  1. 01I. Æsop's Fables
  2. 02II. Adaptations and Imitations of Hindoo Fables
  3. 03Stories for Children 1869-1872
  4. 04The Foundling
  5. 05The Peasant and the Cucumbers
  6. 06The Fire
  7. 07The Old Horse
  8. 08How I Learned to Ride
  9. 09The Willow
  10. 10Búlka
  11. 11Búlka and the Wild Boar
  12. 12Pheasants
  13. 13Milton and Búlka
  14. 14The Turtle
  15. 15Búlka and the Wolf
  16. 16What Happened to Búlka in Pyatigórsk
  17. 17Búlka's and Milton's End
  18. 18The Gray Hare
  19. 19God Sees the Truth, but Does Not Tell at Once
  20. 20Hunting Worse Than Slavery
  21. 21A Prisoner of the Caucasus
  22. 22Ermák
  23. 23Natural Science Stories 1869-1872
  24. 24Stories from Physics
  25. 25The Magnet
  26. 26Moisture
  27. 27The Different Connection of Particles
  28. 28Crystals
  29. 29Injurious Air
  30. 30How Balloons Are Made
  31. 31Galvanism
  32. 32The Sun's Heat
  33. 33Stories from Zoology
  34. 34The Owl and the Hare
  35. 35How the Wolves Teach Their Whelps
  36. 36Hares and Wolves
  37. 37The Scent
  38. 38Touch and Sight
  39. 39The Silkworm
  40. 40Stories from Botany
  41. 41The Apple-Tree
  42. 42The Old Poplar
  43. 43The Bird-Cherry
  44. 44How Trees Walk
  45. 45The Decembrists Fragments of a Novel 1863-1878
  46. 46First Fragment
  47. 47On Popular Education 1875
  48. 48What Men Live by 1881
  49. 49The Three Hermits 1884
  50. 50Neglect the Fire And You Cannot Put It Out 1885
  51. 51The Candle 1885
  52. 52The Two Old Men 1885
  53. 53Where Love Is, There God Is Also 1885
  54. 54Texts for Chapbook Illustrations 1885
  55. 55The Fiend Persists, but God Resists
  56. 56Little Girls Wiser Than Old People
  57. 57The Two Brothers and the Gold
  58. 58Ilyás
  59. 59A Fairy-Tale

About this edition

Author
Leo Tolstoy
Translator
Leo Wiener
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
507 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers