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Little Girls Wiser than Old Men

Девчонки умнее стариков

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Text for popular prints: two little girls quarrel at Easter over a puddle and their families end up in a brawl; while the adults trade insults, the girls have already made up and are playing together. Written in 1885. It belongs to the popular stories Tolstoy wrote after his conversion for the Posrednik press, in plain language and with the structure of a parable.

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  • Толстой, Л. Н. Собрание сочинений в 22 томах. Moscú: Judózhestvennaia literatura, 1978–1985 (índices de los tomos 1–22 en la Biblioteca Virtual Rusa, RVB; el t. 10, de 1982, recoge los relatos de la Nueva Azbuka y de los cuatro Libros rusos de lectura).

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