"What Men Live By" is one of the most important works of the famous writer Tolstoy. The short stories in this book will appeal to the spiritual world of the reader. A poor shoemaker, Michael tried to find the answer to these basic questions: What influences and make people behave as the do, what was not given to man and what men live by? With this legendary book, Tolstoy examines goodness and evil in human nature, selfishness and being generous, by giving very powerful secrets of life to the reader