I think your teacher is looking for "How Much Land Does a Man Need" by Leo Tolstoy.
Mary Ellen Scribner
Lincoln Community School
Head/Secondary Librarian
c/o U.S. Embassy P.O. Box 194
Accra, Ghana
mescribner@lincoln.edu.gh
> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:00:11 -0800
> From: cbauer@NCSMAIL.ORG
> Subject: [LM_NET] Russian short story-greed
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>
> I have an economics teacher who is looking for what he believes is a Russian
>short story about a farmer who walks the land from sunrise to sunset to obtain
>land. He becomes lost as the day progresses and is frantic to get back home
>before the sun sets as he will loose the land he has claimed during the day if he
>does not.
>
> Does anyone know this story?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Charlene Bauer, Librarian
> Norwalk Catholic School
> Norwalk, Ohio
> cbauer@ncsmail.org
>
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