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PDF of the story: https://heroe.com/relato/la-rina-del-... Join our reading club: https://heroe.com/club Leo Tolstoy, recognized as one of the great writers of universal literature, went through a deep spiritual crisis in the second half of his life, which led him to rethink the meaning of existence and moral values. This transformation notably influenced his later work, marked by a deep interest in themes such as the simplicity of peasant life, Christian morality, and the internal struggle of human beings between good and evil. "The Quarrel over the Egg" is a story that perfectly exemplifies this change of focus in Tolstoy. The seemingly simple story about a dispute between neighbors that begins over a lost egg becomes a moral parable about pride, enmity, and the destructive power of resentment. Through the characters of Ivan and Gabriel, Tolstoy invites us to reflect on the human capacity to cause and perpetuate conflicts for insignificant reasons, and how hatred not only consumes those who generate it, but also destroys everything around it.