How the Little Devil Redeemed the Crust

Name: How the Little Devil Redeemed the Crust
Author: Leo Tolstoy

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byLeo Tolstoy

A little devil steals a poor peasant's crust of bread, and the peasant, instead of cursing, says whoever took it must have needed it. To redeem his failure before the chief devil, the imp teaches the peasant to distil spirits and turns him into a drunkard. Tolstoy made it into the comedy The First Distiller. 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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