Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries, was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Harvard Classics: The Five-Foot Shelf of Books | Seventy-nine great minds, one complete education in world thought
with Alfred de Musset, John Woolman, William Penn, Thomas Carlyle, Edmund Burke, Edward Everett Hale, Robert Burns, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, Theodor Storm, Philip Massinger, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, Robert Browning, Virgil, John Bunyan, Benvenuto Cellini, Jane Austen, Izaak Walton, Gottfried Keller, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Homer, John Dryden and Percy Bysshe Shelley
with Liev Tolstoi
with Sofia Tolstaia
with Henry Van Dyke, Florence Scovel Shinn, John Milton, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Luther, Charles H. Spurgeon and John Bunyan
with Teffi
The Kreutzer Sonata Variations: Lev Tolstoy's Novella and Counterstories by Sofiya Tolstaya and Lev Lvovich Tolstoy
with Sofia Tolstaya
with Jack Wang and Holman Wang
with Ben H. Winters
with Lev Tolstoy
with Lev Tolstoy
with Liev Tolstoi
with Lev Tolstoy
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50 Obras-Primas que Voce Deve Ler Antes de Morrer: Volume 1
with Maxim Gorky, Sun Tzu, Alexandre Dumas, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Homer, George Orwell, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Euclides da Cunha and Daniel Defoe
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with Jack London
with Henry Van Dyke, Louisa May Alcott, John Milton, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, L. Frank Baum and L. M. Montgomery
with Liev Tolstoi
with H. G. Wells
