This volume is the very first annotated translation of all the titled stories included in the New ABC Book and in Tolstoy's four Primers for Reading. There are approximately 300 of these pieces, ranging in length from a few sentences to a few pages, classified as Fables, Fairy tales, Stories, Histor...

This volume is the very first annotated translation of all the titled stories included in the New ABC Book and in Tolstoy's four Primers for Reading. There are approximately 300 of these pieces, ranging in length from a few sentences to a few pages, classified as Fables, Fairy tales, Stories, History, Explanations, and Descriptions.