A merchant and his peasant set out with a horse and sledge to close a land deal before a rival can, and drive into a blizzard neither of them takes seriously. Tolstoy wrote it in his sixties, after renouncing his own novels; it is short, plain and merciless about how a man calculates right up until the moment calculation stops.
Englisch
The Gambler : A Story of the Roulette Table
Bel Ami : or, The History of a Scoundrel
Notes from the Underground : A Confession from a Petersburg Corner
White Nights, and Other Stories : Stories of the Petersburg Nights
Father Goriot : A Paris Boarding-House Tragedy
The Fortune of the Rougons
Carmen : A Tale of Seville
The Magic Skin : A Fable of Desire and Its Cost
Eugénie Grandet : Scenes of Provincial Life
The Fortune of the Rougons : The First of the Rougon-Macquart
The Red Lily : A Romance of Paris and Florence
