Bøker av Count Leo Nikolayevich

Reproduction of the original: The Cause of it All by Leo Tolstoi

Reproduction of the original: The First Distiller by Leo Tolstoi

Reproduction of the original: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoi

Leo Tolstoy (Lyof N. Tolstoi, 1828-1910) wrote works about his religious journey and beliefs that were banned in Russia. This third volume of a collection of his posthumously published works includes the 21 dialogues on the Wisdom of the Children, and fiction works The Forged Coupon, Alyoshka Gorshok, The Cause of It All, and The Devil.

In this carefully constructed critical essay, written in 1894, Tolstoy admonishes a government that wages war by arousing patriotic fervor and a Church that supports such a government's policies. His argument-that war and patriotism have nothing in common with the Christian principles of nonviolence and nonresistance-continues to resound today.