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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
- Fiction
- 1911
- Фальшивый купон (Fal'shivyi kupon)
PLOT SUMMARY: The Forged Coupon is about a boy forging a bond coupon to repay his friend and the chain of events that this sets off. The novella is split into two parts. The first part concerns the increasingly tragic wreckage of lives caused by the forged coupon.
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- Introduction
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- 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. 1,843 ratings243 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 · About this eBook. The forged coupon -- After the dance -- Alyosha the Pot -- My dream -- There are no guilty people -- The young Tsar. Public domain in the USA. 296 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
- Leo Tolstoy
- Translation of: Falshivyi kupon
- 1911
- The Forged Coupon, and Other Stories
The Forged Coupon, And Other Stories Introduction. Written: 1912 Source: The Forged Coupon: And Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoy, 1912, Translated from the Russian by Herman Bernstein, published by Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, New York, produced for Gutenberg.org by Judith Boss and David Widger, 2006.
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