'Although he feared death; he could not stop. 'If I stopped now; after coming all this way - well; they'd call me an idiot!' A pair of short stories about greed; charity; life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics; with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan; from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Tolstoy's works available in Penguin Classics are Anna Karenina; War and Peace; Childhood; Boyhood; Youth;The Cossacks and Other Stories; The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories; What is art?; Resurrection; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories; Master and Man and Other Stories; How Much Land Does A Man Need? & Other Stories; A Confession and Other Religious Writings and Last steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy.