Talk:Twenty-three Tales/The Empty Drum

This should answer the question for several Tolstoy Text of questionable origin: Text source: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/tolstoy/23_tales.txt Text published 1907.

Title: Twenty-Three Tales Creator(s): Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich (1828-1910) Rights: Public Domain CCEL Subjects: All; Fiction; Proofed; LC Call no: PG3366 LC Subjects:

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TWENTY-THREE TALES

BY TOLSTOY

TRANSLATED BY

L. AND A. MAUDE

Originally published by

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

NEW YORK

1907

AYLMER MAUDE.

GREAT BADDOW

CHELMSFORD.

February 1, 1906.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART I: TALES FOR CHILDREN: PUBLISHED ABOUT 1872.

1. GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS

2. A PRISONER IN THE CAUCASUS

3. THE BEAR-HUNT

PART II: POPULAR STORIES.

4. WHAT MEN LIVE BY (1881)

5. A SPARK NEGLECTED BURNS THE HOUSE (1885)

6. TWO OLD MEN (1885)

7. WHERE LOVE IS, GOD IS (1885)

PART III: A FAIRY TALE.

8. THE STORY OF IVÁN THE FOOL (1885)

PART IV: STORIES WRITTEN TO PICTURES (1885).

9. EVIL ALLURES, BUT GOOD ENDURES

10. LITTLE GIRLS WISER THAN MEN

11. ILYÁS

PART V: FOLK-TALES RETOLD.

12. THE THREE HERMITS (1886)

13. THE IMP AND THE CRUST (1886)

14. HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED? (1886)

15. A GRAIN AS BIG AS A HEN'S EGG (1886)

16. THE GODSON (1886)

17. THE REPENTANT SINNER (1886)

18. THE EMPTY DRUM (1891)

PART VI: ADAPTATIONS FROM THE FRENCH.

19. THE COFFEE HOUSE OF SURAT (1893)

20. TOO DEAR (1897)

PART VII: STORIES GIVEN TO AID THE PERSECUTED JEWS (1903).

21. ESARHADDON, KING OF ASSYRIA

22. WORK, DEATH AND SICKNESS

23. THREE QUESTIONS