Skip to content
The ConsciousLibrary

Library Leo Tolstoy

The Monkey — Leo Tolstoy

Written work

The Monkey

Обезьяна

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 First Russian Reader (1875). A monkey that has watched a woodcutter saw a log with a wedge tries to imitate him, pulls out the wedge and is caught.

Buy the book

amazon.com · Link to the store.

Editions and translations · 0

Editions and translations

Editions in your language first, without hiding the others. Each with its cover and its store.

No editions recorded yet.

Other works by Leo Tolstoy

Sources

  • 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).

Affiliate link: if you buy through it, the library may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. When an edition's real cover is not available, we show an illustrative library cover.