by Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy’s late novella The Forged Coupon, conceived between 1902 and 1904 yet kept from the public until a posthumous Moscow printing in 1911, unspools the moral avalanche triggered by a schoolboy’s trivial fraud. Few texts expose the fine filament linking casual sin to social catastrophe with such pitiless lucidity, turning a slim narrative into a mirror for any reader who has ever excused a small deceit. Composed at Yasnaya Polyana during the tense years when Tolstoy’s break with the Orthodox
ISBN: 9783989888531
273 pages
Published: 2024-05-09