Ivan's comical León Tolstoi is better remembered by his immense epic novels such as "Ana Karenina" and especially "War and peace" and they make us forget the delicious stories that, with pedagogical spirit, he wrote about made-up Russian legends. One of the most famous is the history of Iván, the imbecile, who thanks to his ingenuity manages to conquer even the devil and to work out triumphantly over all the waylaying put to him. This entertaining farce and other stories in this edition show a master of short story and an ingenious narrator that continues causing enjoyment. This E book is in Spanish
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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
