How Much Land Does a Man Need? is an 1886 short story by Leo Tolstoy about a man who, in his lust for land, forfeits everything, including his own life. Although written in rough manner quite different from impeccable magic of Tolstoy's ordinary style and part of a series intended for reading to peasants, these 10 pages came to be praised by James Joyce as the greatest short story ever written. 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Leo Tolstoy, pictured late in life Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy   listen? (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910; August 28, 1828 – November 7, 1910, O.S.) was a Russian novelist, social reformer, pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, moral thinker and an influential member... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered a significant writer of the 20th century. ...

A Russian peasant is offered by the Bashkirs as much land as he wants, provided he can walk its perimeter in one day. However, he tries to take too much and, at the end of the day, finds himself far from his goal. Running to make sure that he gets back to the starting point by nightfall, he collapses and dies. The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the republic of Bashkortostan. ...

Tolstoy's meaning is usually interpreted this way: in the end, the only thing you will need is a coffin and a plot in the cemetery. To this, Anton Chekhov retorted that man needs the whole earth as his walk of life. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...