Master and Man

Leo Tolstoy

⏱ 8 minRussian classic

A grasping merchant and his humble servant are caught in a blinding blizzard on the open steppe, and the selfish master, facing death, at last gives his life to save the man he despised. Tolstoy's stark late parable.

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