• Episode 270: “Best of” Series – “How Much Land Does a Man Need” by Leo Tolstoy

  • Apr 1 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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Episode 270: “Best of” Series – “How Much Land Does a Man Need” by Leo Tolstoy

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  • This week on The Literary Life, we bring you a gem from the archives. In this episode hosts Angelina Stanford, Thomas Banks, and Cindy Rollins discuss “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” by Leo Tolstoy. To start off the discussion of this short story, Thomas gives us some background to help answer Angelina’s question about why this story seems so very different from other Tolstoy works. Angelina shares how to approach this story like a parable. Cindy brings up the question of the difference between ambition and vocation in terms of contentment.

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