Twenty-three Tales [Large Print] [Paperback]

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Author)

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Publication Date: January 14, 2008

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“Twenty-three tales” is an illuminating set of tales by Tolstoy focussing on the different contemporary classes of people. Written with remarkable brevity, the stories are brimming with moral wisdom. Tolstoy delivers a message of spiritual uprightness in a manner which takes his stories far beyond the conventional religious literature. Extraordinarily thought-provoking!

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About the Author

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher noted for his ideas of nonviolent resistance. His diary reveals an incessant pursuit of a morally justified life. He was known for his generosity to the peasants.His best known novels are “War and Peace” (1869), which Tolstoy regarded as an epic rather than a novel, and “Anna Karenina” (1877). His work was admired in his time by Dostoyevsky, Checkov, Turgenev, and Flaubert, and later by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.

Product Details

• Paperback: 488 pages
• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant (January 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1427029717
• ISBN-13: 978-1427029713
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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While thousands of books have been written to tell us what Christianity is all about, there are few works outside the parables in the Gospels themselves that actually show us what it really is all about. In this book you will find some stories that are short and simple, others longer and more complex in structure, but all of them with the signature of the literary giant who after receiving world recognition for his masterpieces "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" converted to Christianity and gave up the then popular idea of art for art's sake for one where art always serves a higher purpose. That is very clear in this volume, where the stories simple plot lines and explicitly stated "moral of the story" at the end of each one make few demands on the reader in regards to interpretation, but nonetheless leave one pondering on its meaning long after having finished it. At a time when the term "Christian Fiction" has sadly come to mean catastrophic, apocalyptic tales with Jesus a harsh, merciless judge who has little in common with the gentle Teacher in the gospels who talks to people in parables; preachers, priests, and other clergymen would do well to encourage people to read this book which drives home the meaning of timeless Christian truths (i.e. love of one's neighbor, self-sacrifice, redemption through suffering, the futility of man's efforts without God's grace, etc..) in a way few others have been able to do.