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.

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E-Book: 19. August 2026