Fables for Children

Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Władysław Podkowiński, Vasily Perov and Ivan Shishkin. Short fables, natural-science tales and stories for peasant children, written by Tolstoy for the school he ran on his own estate. He composed them in the early 1870s, between War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and rewrote each until a child could hear it once and repeat it. "The Lion and the D...