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Section 1: Chapters I-III

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Tolstoy, Leo. How Much Land Does a Man Need. Trans. L. Maude and A. Maude. The Floating Press, 2016. EPub.

• Chapter I opens in the home of Russian peasants.

• The wife's older sister, who lives in town and is married to a tradesman, has come to visit.

• The wife's older sister boasts about how wonderful town life is, saying that in town they are well-dressed, well-fed, and well-entertained.

• Irritated, the younger sister defends peasant life in the countryside, saying that it may be simpler but that it is also more secure.

• She repeats a proverb that warns about risk, saying that loss and gain often occur in turns.

• The older sister tells the peasant wife that no matter how hard her peasant husband works, she and her children will always be poor.

• The...

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