Tolstoy also wrote some non-fiction books, which includes The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, What is Art, and The Gospel in Brief. All of these books were based on social, religious, spiritual an
Although in later life Tolstoy rejected these books as sentimental, a great deal of his own life is revealed, and the books still have relevance for their telling of the universal story of growing up. His fiction consistently attempts to convey realistically the Russian society in which he ...
Russian author Leo Tolstoy wrote the acclaimed novels 'War and Peace,' 'Anna Karenina' and 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich,' and ranks among the world's top writers.
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power. —Leo Tolsto...
Leo Tolstoy Creates a List of the 50+ Books That Influenced Him Most (1891) Leo Tolstoy’s Masochistic Diary: I Am Guilty of “Sloth,”“Cowardice” & “Sissiness” (1851) 6 Political Theorists Introduced in Animated “School of...
most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another’s lives for the sake of personal gain. (Leo Tolstoy, ...
Maxim Gorky:Reminiscences of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Maxim Gorky:Reminiscences of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy These fragmentary notes were written by me during the period when I lived in Oleise and Leo Nikolaevich at Gaspra in the Crimea. They cover the...
“Everyone thinks of changing the world‚ but no one thinks of changing himself”. This astonishing author goes by the name ofLeoTolstoyand is acknowledged as being the best author in time.Tolstoywas an amazing writer for realistic fiction and he was best known for two of his books.Helping...
As Tolstoy examines his characters’ emotional reactions to the rapidly changing circumstances in which they find themselves, he uses them to represent Russian society’s responses to the demands of both war and peace.The theme of war, ___, is not so important as the story of family life,...
One of the first political science books I read in college was journalist David Wise’sThe Politics of Lying—as pertinent today as it was when it was published in 1973. The book outlines how government deception has been enhanced over the years through “official secrecy, a vast public relat...