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Title: How Much Land Does a Man Need?: And Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Ronald Wilks ISBN: 0-14-044506-4 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent!
Comment: This is a great book of short stories with an unabashed Christian moral slant. Very entertaining.
Rating: 4
Summary: Tolstoy Sampler.
Comment: Tolstoy wrote some remarkable short fiction. There is, for example, the detached observer of war and its effect. The early stories based on his military experience in the Caucasus "The Raid," "The Woodfelling," and "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" are examples of this aspect of Tolstoy's craft. Tolstoy anticipated authors such as Stephen Crane and Ernest Hemingway in his unglamorous portrait of war. Tolstoy's slice of life sketches have little blood and thunder. The writing speaks more of futility than of glory or Mother Russia. Except for wasteful, impersonal death, men at war do not progress; their only goal is survival. Then there is the spiritual side of Tolstoy's art. Simple parables patterned on the Gospels in their truth and biblical purity. The title piece speaks of a landowner's greed and its result. "Where Love Is, God Is," and "What Men Live By" are examples of the later Tolstoy and his spiritual views. Although Tolstoy was grounded in Chritianity, Russian Orthodoxy and organized religions left him cold. Tolstoy was more mystic than cleric. His spiritual views rejected dogma and flowed from springs of human compassion. Love inevitably provokes action. Feed the hungry, comfort the sick, and care for widows and orphans. Then we find God among us. This collection of stories has an insightful introduction by editor and biographer A. N. Wilson. It's a good cross sample of Tolstoy's short fiction. ;-)
Rating: 5
Summary: it is love
Comment: these stories have changed my life. tolstoy makes us want to love one another. i think the world would be a better place if everybody read these stories.
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Title: A Confession and Other Religious Writings by Leo Tolsyoy, Jane Kentish ISBN: 0140444734 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Basic Bakunin: Writings 1869-1871 by Robert M. Cutler ISBN: 0879757450 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy ISBN: 0060830719 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 June, 1967 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: The Gospel in Brief by Leo Tolstoy, Isabel Hapgood, F. A., III Flowers, Isabel Florence Hapgood, F. A. Flowers ISBN: 0803294328 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $8.94 |
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Title: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is by Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale ISBN: 0140445153 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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