How Much Land Does a Man Need?

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Gr 1-3-The title says it all for the theme of this didactic and rambling Russian tale. Pakhom, a poor man, overhears talk about the security of owning land and so, by borrowing and through hard work, he is able to move his family from place to ever-larger place. When the remote Bashkirs promise all the land Pakhom can walk around in one day, the foolish and greedy man overestimates his stamina and has to run back to the starting point. There, he dies. The stiff, posed figures created from highly patterned textiles create beautiful designs, and lavish architecture and landscape depictions draw the eye. Yet the illustrations provide little movement to the story and the main character is not easy to follow. An interesting endnote details the wealthy Tolstoy's lifelong challenge to be a progressive landowner and an advocate of the peasants, and his struggle with balancing his talents as an author with his religious activities, but that is not enough to save this marginal purchase.-Susan Hepler, Burgundy Farm Country Day School, Alexandria, VA Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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A man's greed leads to his downfall in this adaptation of an 1886 short story. Pakhom is a peasant whose wife is happy with life but who himself has an insatiable desire for more and more land. He follows rumors and stories from place to place, enlarging his holdings each time, until he hears that the Bashkirs are practically giving away huge tracts of land. He investigates, to find that for 1,000 rubles, he can claim as much land as he can walk around in a day. Greed keeps him walking until sundown, when he finally reaches his starting point-and falls down dead. It is a sudden end to what has until that point been a fairly sprightly tale about greed and contentment along the lines of the many variants on "The Fisherman and His Wife." The final illustration depicts Pakhom ascending with a host of angels, but it is doubtful that this will do much to soften the text: "Pakhom's servant . . . dug his master a grave-just as long and as wide as Pakhom's body where it lay upon the earth." As an adaptation, the story cuts much from the original that lends it psychological and political depth, notably the involvement of the Devil in Pakhom's lust for land and Pakhom's relationships with various local Communes and landlords. Kiev-based Abesinova's illustrations are humorous and highly detailed, cramming every possible element into richly colored, flat tableaux. Although they are entirely pleasing of themselves, they do little to extend the story of a man who is so driven to own land that he literally walks himself to death. For more psychologically satisfying treatments of the same theme, stick to the aforementioned folktales. There are no translation/abridgment/adaptation credits; however, abiographical note on Tolstoy follows the text. (Picture book. 6-8)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781566564076
  • Publisher: Crocodile Books
  • Publication date: 9/28/2001
  • Language: Russian
  • Pages: 32
  • Age range: 5 - 9 Years
  • Product dimensions: 8.82 (w) x 11.42 (h) x 0.38 (d)

Meet the Author

Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
One of the great masters of the 19th-century novel, Tolstoy created a sweeping epic in War and Peace which folds together huge events in history and politics with the emotional lives of individuals. But it was his deeply spiritual outlook that made him an icon.

Biography

Count Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 on the family estate of Yasnaya Polyana, in the Tula province, where he spent most of his early years, together with his several brothers. In 1844 he entered the University of Kazan to read Oriental Languages and later Law, but left before completing a degree. He spent the following years in a round of drinking, gambling and womanizing, until weary of his idle existence he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus in 1851.

He took part in the Crimean war and after the defence of Sevastopol wrote The Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6), which established his literary reputation. After leaving the army in 1856 Tolstoy spent some time mixing with the literati in St Petersburg before traveling abroad and then settling at Yasnaya Polyana, where he involved himself in the running of peasant schools and the emancipation of the serfs. His marriage to Sofya Andreyevna Behrs in 1862 marked the beginning of a period of contentment centred around family life; they had thirteen children. Tolstoy managed his vast estates, continued his educational projects, cared for his peasants and wrote both his great novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).

During the 1870s he underwent a spiritual crisis, the moral and religious ideas that had always dogged him coming to the fore. A Confession (1879–82) marked an outward change in his life and works; he became an extreme rationalist and moralist, and in a series of pamphlets written after 1880 he rejected church and state, indicted the demands of flesh, and denounced private property. His teachings earned him numerous followers in Russia and abroad, and also led finally to his excommunication by the Russian Holy Synod in 1901. In 1910 at the age of eighty-two he fled from home "leaving this worldly life in order to live out my last days in peace and solitude;" he died some days later at the station master's house at Astapovo.

Author biography courtesy of Penguin Books LTD.

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    1. Also Known As:
      Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (full name)
    1. Date of Birth:
      September 9, 1828
    2. Place of Birth:
      Tula Province, Russia
    1. Date of Death:
      November 20, 1910
    2. Place of Death:
      Astapovo, Russia

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