The tale Karataev tells was a particular favorite of Tolstoy’s. He wrote it out much more fully under the title of God Sees the Truth but Waits (the full Russian title is God Sees the Truth But Speaks not Soon) in the volume of Twenty-Three Tales. In What Is Art? he refers to it as being in his opinion one of the two best he ever wrote, as regards its subject matter of forgiveness of injuries. —A.M.
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