Episode 117: Leo Tolstoy: Greed - "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and one of the world’s greatest novelists. Most readers will agree with the assessment of the 19th-century British poet and critic Matthew Arnold that a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life; the Russian author Isaak Babel commented that, if the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy. This episode includes a reading of Part One of “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”