The Three Questions

"The Three Questions Author - Leo Tolstoy"
A 1916 cover illustration by Michael Sevier
Author	Leo Tolstoy
Translator	Aylmer and Louise Maude
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Genre(s)	Parable
Published in	What Men Live By, and Other Tales
Media type	Print
Publication date	1898

"The Three Questions" is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy) first published in 1885^{[citation needed]} as part of the collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales. The story takes the form of a parable, and it concerns a king who wants to find the answers to what he considers the three most important questions in life.

He consults wise men, promising a large sum to anyone who could answer those questions, but their answers were too diverse and did not satisfy the king. So, he goes to a hermit in search of his help. The rest of the story revolves around both of them.

See also[]

• Bibliography of Leo Tolstoy
• Twenty-Three Tales

External links[]

• Complete Text Online, as translated by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude
  • "The Three Questions", from RevoltLib.com
  • "The Three Questions", from Marxists.org
• The Three Questions at The Literature Network

References[]

• "The Works of Tolstoi." Black's Readers Service Company: Roslyn, New York. 1928.

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