GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS by LEO TOLSTOY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this excellent Tolstoy short story, an innocent man is imprisoned for 26 years for a crime he did not commit. Then he is faced with the man who actually framed him for the murder- who begs for forgiveness.
This was the story that inspired a book by Stephen King which led to the movie The Shawshank Redemption.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand000 classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:33.7 | Today's story, God sees the truth but waits |
| 0:38.0 | by Leo Tolstoy. |
| 0:41.2 | God sees the truth but waits, was written in 1872. |
| 0:45.0 | It's about a man falsely convicted and serving a sentence for murder that he did not commit. |
| 0:50.0 | Many people call it Tolstoy's parable for forgiveness. His story inspired Stephen King's |
| 0:56.2 | novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption 1982 which was adapted into the film The Shaw Shank Redemption. |
| 1:07.0 | In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dimitridge Axinov. |
| 1:12.0 | He had two shops at house of his own. Axinov was a handsome, fair-haired, curly-headed fellow, full of fun and very fond of singing. |
| 1:23.0 | When quite a young man he'd been given to drink |
| 1:26.0 | and was riotous when he had had too much. |
| 1:28.0 | But after he married, he gave up drinking, |
| 1:31.0 | except now and then. |
| 1:34.0 | One summer, actually enough was going to the Nisney fair, |
| 1:37.0 | and as he bade goodbye to his family, his wife said to him, |
| 1:41.0 | Ivan Demetrich, do not start today. |
| 1:44.2 | I've had a bad dream about you. |
| 1:47.0 | Axie enough laughed and said, |
| 1:49.1 | You are afraid that when I get to the fair I shall go on a spree." His wife replied, |
| 1:55.8 | I do not know what I'm afraid of. All I know is that I had a bad dream. |
| 2:00.7 | I dream you returned from the town and when you took off your cap I saw |
| 2:05.4 | that your hair was quite gray." |
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