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The Axe and the Saw

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Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Fable. Part of the Azbuka cycle (1872–1875), the primers Tolstoy wrote for peasant children, included in the Third Russian Reader (1875). Two peasants argue whether to fell a tree with an axe or a saw; a third tells them that the axe is blunt and the saw dull, and they end up fighting even more.

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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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