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The Forged Coupon

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The story is divided into two parts. In Part I, schoolboy Mitya is in desperate need of money to repay a debt, but his father angrily denies him assistance. Dejected, under the instigation of a friend Makhin, Mitya simply changes a 2.50 rouble bond coupon to read 12.50 roubles, but this one evil deed
126:. Though he first conceived of the story in the late 1890s, he did not begin writing it until 1902. After struggling for several years, he finally completed the story in 1904; however, it was not published until some of Tolstoy's shorter works were collected and anthologized after his death in 1910. 142:, Tolstoy relishes the chance to unveil the "pseudo-piety and hypocrisy of organized religion." Yet, he maintains an unwavering belief in man's capacity to find truth, so the story remains hopeful, especially in Part II, which shows that good works can affect another as in a 177:
with a concise protagonist and focusing more specifically in his story. Because Part II is completely omitted, there is no redeeming the many characters and their crimes that lead up to murder in Part I. The film
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sets off a chain of events that affects the lives of dozens of others, when his one falsehood indirectly causes a man to murder a woman at the end of Part I, and then seek redemption through religion in Part II.
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as one of thirteen "subjects which can be, and deserve to be worked up properly." p. 473, Dec. 20, 1899, Tolstoy thought about the story and thought "Perhaps I'll write it."
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that is based on Part I and set in contemporary Finland.
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Having written the novella in his dying years, after his
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Nikolai Nevrev
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright
Russian
Leo Tolstoy
excommunication
domino effect
Robert Bresson
L'Argent
tsarist Russia
capitalistic
ensemble cast
Frozen Land
Finnish
Aku Louhimies
Leo Tolstoy bibliography
Moravia, A.
The Forged Coupon
Project Gutenberg.org
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Leo Tolstoy
Bibliography
Childhood
Boyhood
Youth
The Cossacks
War and Peace

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