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The Forged Coupon (Russian: Фальшивый купон, Fal'shivyi kupon) is a novella in two parts by Leo Tolstoy. Though he first conceived of the story in the late 1890s, he did not begin writing it until 1902.
- Leo Tolstoy
- 1911
The Forged Coupon is a dramatic exhibition of the social volatility in Russia drawn across the lines of class and gender. Part two is dedicated to the ultimate division highlighted in the novella, that is, the one between the pious and impious.
- Introduction
- Part First
- Part Second
IN an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the “divine right” of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocratic systems as a mystic personal emanation in place of a coercive weapon of statecraft. Freed from its ancient shackles of dog...
I FEDOR MIHAILOVICH SMOKOVNIKOV, the president of the local Income Tax Department, a man of unswerving honesty—and proud of it, too—a gloomy Liberal, a free-thinker, and an enemy to every manifestation of religious feeling, which he thought a relic of superstition, came home from his office feeling very much annoyed. The Governor of the province ha...
I THE whole time he was lying in the gutter Stepan saw continually before his eyes the thin, kindly, and frightened face of Maria Semenovna, and seemed to hear her voice. “How can you?” she went on saying in his imagination, with her peculiar lisping voice. Stepan saw over again and over again before him all he had done to her. In horror he shut hi...
The Forged Coupon. Leo Tolstoy, Hugh Aplin (Translator), Andrew Miller (Foreword by) 3.86. 1,893 ratings253 reviews. Tolstoy’s final novella, The Forged Coupon is an ingenious study of the destructive powers of evil set against a brilliant depiction of Russian life.
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Mar 15, 2006 · The forged coupon, and other stories. Note. First story is translation of: Фальшивый купон, Fal'shivyi kupon. Contents. The forged coupon -- After the dance -- Alyosha the Pot -- My dream -- There are no guilty people -- The young Tsar. Credits.
- Leo Tolstoy
- The forged coupon, and other stories
- 1911
“After the Ball” gives a painful picture of Russian military cruelty; “The Forged Coupon” traces the cancerous growth of evil, and demonstrates with dramatic force the cumulative misery resulting from one apparently trivial act of wrongdoing.
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Apr 13, 2023 · Fedor Mihailovich frowned, took out of his pocket-book a coupon of two roubles fifty kopeks which he found among the bank-notes, and added to it fifty kopeks in silver out of the loose change in his purse.
