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The Old Man and Death

Старик и смерть

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). An old man worn out by his load of firewood calls for death; when she appears, he asks only that she help him lift the load onto his shoulder.

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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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