"The Two Brothers and the Gold" ("Два брата и золото") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy written in 1885.

Influence

According to Nadejda Gorodetzky, this story discusses the joys of poverty if poverty is willingly accepted. According to the Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy, one should regard this text as different from other of Tolstoy's works, in that the narrator's stance is more objective and neutral.

Publication history

The work was published in collections in 1882 (with translations by

Aylmer Maude Aylmer Maude (28 March 1858 – 25 August 1938) and Louise Maude (1855–1939) were English translators of Leo Tolstoy's works, and Aylmer Maude also wrote his friend Tolstoy's biography, ''The Life of Tolstoy''. After living many years in Russi ...

and editing by Leo Wiener and Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright), in 1903, and again in 2016.

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* Original Text ** As Translated by Robert Nisbet Bain **
''The Two Brothers and the Gold: Bain Translation''
from RevoltLib.com **

from

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** As Translated by Leo Wiener **
''The Two Brothers and the Gold: Wiener Translated''
from RevoltLib.com **

from

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