What Men Live By, and Other Tales
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Men_Live_By Release date is 2004-07-01
What men live by -- Three questions -- The coffee-house of Surat -- How much land does a man need?
Produced by Joe Jurca, and David Widger Produced by Joe Jurca, and David Widger
"What Men Live By, and Other Tales" by Leo Tolstoy is a collection of short stories published in 1885. The title story follows Simon, a poor shoemaker who encounters a mysterious naked stranger near a chapel. Despite his own poverty, Simon brings the man home, naming him Michael and employing him as an assistant. As years pass, Michael displays strange behavior—smiling at peculiar moments and seeming to know things before they happen. The collection explores profound questions about human existence, compassion, and divine purpose. (This is an automatically generated summary.)