The Kingdom of God Is Within You - Couverture souple

Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1596056630 ISBN 13 : 9781596056633

Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 2005

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Leo Tolstoy (28 August 1828 – 20 November 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Tolstoy was a master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the world's greatest novelists. He is best known for two long novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy first achieved literary acclaim in his 20s with his semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856) and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based on his experiences in the Crimean War. His fiction output also includes two additional novels, dozens of short stories, and several famous novellas, including The Death of Ivan Ilych, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. Reading Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You convinced Gandhi to avoid violence and espouse nonviolent resistance, a debt Gandhi acknowledged in his autobiography, calling Tolstoy "the greatest apostle of non-violence that the present age has produced". The correspondence between Tolstoy and Gandhi would only last a year, from October 1909 until Tolstoy's death in November 1910, but led Gandhi to give the name, the Tolstoy Colony, to his second ashram in South Africa.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Kingdom of God is Within You is a non-fiction work written by Leo Tolstoy and was first published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in his home country of Russia. The title of the book is taken from Luke 17:21. In the book Tolstoy speaks of the principle of nonresistance when confronted by violence, as taught by Jesus.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cosimo Classics
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1596056630
• ISBN 13: 9781596056633
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384