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Title: Divine and Human by Leo Tolstoy, Peter Sekirin ISBN: 0-310-22367-9 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Joy and Goodness!
Comment: Tolstoy considered the stories in this volume to be "the best achievements of Christian literature" infused with "continuous joy." Most of these human-divine stories can fill a reader's soul with the beauty that saves the world. Only when Tolstoy lapses didactic does the book's transfiguring clarity flag. Ten of these sixteen stories were adapted from French, English, Persian, or other Russian tales. I think these re-interpretations are the book's strongest pieces. "Sisters," a Maupassant tale in which "sailors spend six months of their pay in four hours of debauchery" jolts its hero (and readers) into seeing how close "fallen women" may come to us. In Tolstoy's re-telling of Victor Hugo's "The Power of Childhood" a father's determination to shield his boy's innocence meets with a bloodthirsty mob's blind fury. "I cannot judge others," says a merchant in the book's opening story. "We should forgive other people and love them." This theme of forgiveness and humble love weaves throughout Divine and Human. Humble people can be very wise. Is suffering integral to joy?
Rating: 5
Summary: Tolstoy still sparkles
Comment: For those who find Tolstoy's novels too long, or love them anyhow, this is a collection of tiny, perfect short stories written near the end of Tolstoy's life, and newly translated into English. Well-developed characters circle around ethical and spiritual knots which refuse pat endings. All is illuminated by Tolstoy's intense and gentle wisdom. Suitable for children or adults, these characters will stay with you for a long time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent selection of the prose of life, death and God
Comment: I'll be brief: this is a wonderful book to buy for your child and for your own reading pleasure. These short little stories are so true to life, easy to read and so full of wisdom that they haunted me for a long time after I read them. They make you stop and think. They make you wonder. They make you ask yourself questions. The characters described and their problems are very easy to identify with and, more importantly, they help you draw a line between the temporal and ordinary and the eternal truth of life. Very good read.
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Title: The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett, Martin Green ISBN: 0803294042 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Where Love Is, There God Is Also by Leo Tolstoy, Lawrence Jordan, Leo Toldyoy ISBN: 0800717813 Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: The Gospel in Brief by Leo Tolstoy, Isabel Hapgood, F. A., III Flowers, Luisa Cesana ISBN: 0803294328 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $8.94 |
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Title: Resurrection (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary Edmonds, Vera Traill ISBN: 0140441840 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: February, 1966 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Confession by Leo Tolstoy, David Patterson ISBN: 0393314758 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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