Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Listen online to the first chapters of this audiobook!
All characters reduced
Work Death and Sickness - cover
PLAY SAMPLE

Work Death and Sickness

Leo Tolstoy

Narrator Anastasia Bertollo

Publisher: SmartTouch Media

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

Leo Tolstoy was one of the most famous Russian writers and thinkers esteemed as one of the greatest writers in the world.In the legend "Work, Death, and Sickness" Leo Tolstoy  speculates on the problem of people's happiness. South American Indians believed, that God made men so that they don't need to work.  But people were not happy, they had quarreled with each other. To bring them together, God made it impossible for people to live without working. They must  build houses, and grow plants, to not suffer  from cold and hunger. But people lived worse than before. They worked not all together, but in groups. And every group struggled against other groups. Then God decided to make so that people didn't know when they would die. They should not spoil the time of life in struggles.But it remained as bad as before. The strongest submitted those who were weaker. How did this story end? Get acquainted with the legend "Work, Death, and Sickness", to know it!A SmartTouch Media production.
Duration: 5 minutes (00:05:15)
Publishing date: 2015-01-22; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —