The Forged Coupon

About “The Forged Coupon”

The Forged Coupon is a novella in two parts by Leo Tolstoy. He first thought of the story in the late 1890s but did not start writing it until 1902. He worked on it for several years before completing it in 1904. The story was not published during his lifetime. It appeared later, when some of Tolstoy's shorter works were collected and published after his death in 1910. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)