The Candle

By Leo Tolstoi

The Candle by Leo Tolstoy is a short story about a candle that is lit by a young girl and her mother. The candle is used to light their way during a power outage. The story explores the themes of hope and resilience in the face of adversity. The candle symbolizes the light of hope that can guide us through dark times. The story is a reminder that even when things seem hopeless, we can find strength in each other and in the natural world around us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Interactive Media
• Release date: Jan 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781787240483

Leo Tolstoi

Leo Tolstoy grew up in Russia, raised by a elderly aunt and educated by French tutors while studying at Kazen University before giving up on his education and volunteering for military duty. When writing his greatest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy drew upon his diaries for material. At eighty-two, while away from home, he suffered from declining health and died in Astapovo, Riazan in 1910.

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ISBN: 9781787240483

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THE CANDLE

THE CANDLE

Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil.— ST. MATTHEW V. 38, 39.

It was in the time of serfdom — many years before Alexander II.‘s liberation of the sixty million serfs in 1862. In those days the people were ruled by different kinds of lords. There were not a few who, remembering God, treated their slaves in a humane manner, and not as beasts of burden, while there were others who were seldom known to perform a kind or generous action; but the most barbarous and tyrannical of all were those former serfs who arose from the dirt