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Work, Death and Sickness

By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: David Emerson
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Tolstoy wrote this fascinating story in 1903. It is a parable about God ‘s creation of work, death, and sickness in order to make mankind happier. Finally, God saw that mankind did not really want to be happy, so he left them alone.

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