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A Calendar of Wisdom
Leo Tolstoy
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Description for A Calendar of Wisdom
Paperback. Banned in Russia under Communism, A Calendar of Wisdom was Tolstoy's last major work, and one of his most popular both during and after his lifetime. This new translation by Roger Cockrell will offer today's generation of readers the chance to discover, day by day, these edifying and carefully selected pearls of wisdom. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: WZS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 348.
Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to various questions that preoccupied him in old age, such as faith and existence, as well as matters of everyday life. Banned in Russia under Communism, A Calendar of Wisdom was Tolstoy's last major work, and one of his most popular both during and after his lifetime. This new translation by Roger Cockrell will offer today's generation of readers the chance to discover, day by day, these ... Read more
Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to various questions that preoccupied him in old age, such as faith and existence, as well as matters of everyday life. Banned in Russia under Communism, A Calendar of Wisdom was Tolstoy's last major work, and one of his most popular both during and after his lifetime. This new translation by Roger Cockrell will offer today's generation of readers the chance to discover, day by day, these ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Alma Classics
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Richmond, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847495631
SKU
V9781847495631
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-36
About Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is regarded by some as the greatest novelist of all time. With such masterpieces as Anna Karenina and War and Peace, he influenced generations of writers and changed the course of world literature.
Reviews for A Calendar of Wisdom
Someone who can see so much and so fully does not need to invent anything; someone who observes so poetically does not need to compose anything. For Tolstoy beauty and truth are one and the same thing.
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig