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Based on his study of early Christian texts, Leo Tolstoy's remarkable *The Gospel in Brief*-virtually unknown to English readers until this landmark new translation by Dustin Condren-makes accessible the powerful, mystical truth of Jesus's spiritual teaching, stripped of artificial church doctrine. \"If you are not acquainted with *The Gospel in Brief*,\" wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose life was profoundly influenced by it, \"then you cannot imagine what an effect it can have upon a person.\"","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51560889647391,"sku":"9780061993459","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780061993459_466934.jpg?v=1769124681"},{"product_id":"resurrection-penguin-black-classics-series-420621","title":"Resurrection (Penguin Black Classics Series)","description":"'You want to use me to save your soul ... You disgust me'  \u003cbr\u003e Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young woman he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces the consequences of his actions, he decides to give up his life of wealth and luxury to devote himself to rescuing Katyusha, even if it means following her into exile in Siberia. But can a man truly find redemption by saving another person? Tolstoy's most controversial novel, Resurrection (1899) is a scathing indictment of injustice, corruption and hypocrisy at all levels of society. Creating a vast panorama of Russian life, from peasants to aristocrats, bureaucrats to convicts, it reveals Tolstoy's magnificent storytelling powers.  \u003cbr\u003e Anthony Briggs' superb new translation preserves Tolstoy's gripping realism and satirical humour. In his introduction, Briggs discusses the true story behind Resurrection, Tolstoy's political and religious reasons for writing the novel, his gift for characterization and the compelling psychological portrait of Dmitri. This edition also includes a chronology, notes and a summary of chapters.  \u003cbr\u003e Translated with an introduction and notes by ANTHONY BRIGGS","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51560929296671,"sku":"9780140424638","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780140424638_984677.jpg?v=1769125683"},{"product_id":"a-confession-other-religious-writings-penguin-black-classics-series-203243","title":"A Confession \u0026 Other Religious Writings (Penguin Black Classics Series)","description":"By the time he was fifty, Tolstoy had already written WAR AND PEACE and ANNA KARENINA, novels that would assure him of immortality. He had a wife, a large estate and numerous children; he was 'a happy man' and in good health, yet life had lost all meaning.   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eA CONFESSION (1879), a poignant fragment of autobiography, describes a crisis familiar to many people. It records Tolstoy's depression and estrangement from the world, his desperate desire to find answers to the simplest questions of life and the beginnings of his passionate intellectual search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss, but giving bliss on earth'.   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eA CONFESSION marks the point in Tolstoy's life when he began to turn away from fiction and aesthetics. The three other works collected here - RELIGION AND MORALITY (1893), WHAT IS RELIGION AND OF WHAT DOES ITS ESSENE CONSIST? (1902) and THE LAW OF LOVE AND THE LAW OF VIOLENCE (1908) - are some further fruits of his extraordinary investigations into questions concerning truth.   \u003cbr\u003e***- Publisher.*** \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescribing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. By the time he was fifty, Tolstoy had already written the novels that would assure him of literary immortality; he had a wife, a large estate and numerous children; he was 'a happy man' and in good health - yet life had lost its meaning. In this poignant confessional fragment, he records a period of his life when he began to turn away from fiction and aesthetics, and to search instead for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'. His searingly honest search for spiritual fulfilment also inspires the three other works collected here: Religion and Morality (1893), What is Religion and of What Does Its Essence Consist? (1902) and The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (1908).","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51560930378015,"sku":"9780140444735","price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780140444735.avif?v=1788313117"},{"product_id":"ivan-the-fool-and-three-shorter-tales-for-living-peaceably-533751","title":"Ivan the Fool and Three Shorter Tales For Living Peaceably","description":"The four classic tales in this volume illuminate Leo Tolstoy's radical orientation toward war and commerce, revealing his vision for a sustainable, peaceable world. The feature story, Ivan the Fool, presents an archetypal fool who works hard, cooperates with everyone, and manages to foil every attempt to cause his downfall. In the end, peasant life comes out on top, while the pillars of imperial Russian society topple down. Esarhaddon, King of Assyria explores a king's empathy-based revelation to end all violence; and A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg playfully looks at the relationship between health, soil, labor, and food economies. Three Questions sums up Tolstoy's highest ideal of serving others in the present moment. Some may critique these stories as being too simplistic or too moralistic. But these tales have stood the test of time precisely because they entertain well while evoking universal truths that lift us above humanity's self-serving impulses. \"\"A rare gem! This small book draws one into the sacred wisdom of the holy fool. Readers will savor kernels of life-giving insight, will find the soul smiling at truths it always knew but had forgotten, and will gain more power for the art of living rightly on this good Earth.\"\" --Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (GTU) \"\"Ivan the Fool re-presents the ancient tradition of holy foolery for our postmodern age with tales of transgressive humor that disrupt power, scandalize the elite, and delight the masses. In Ivan's world, you don't have to pay to get in, but it'll cost you your life to get out. Welcome to the upside down.\"\" --Rose Marie Berger, Sojourners magazine \"\"If Russia at feudalism's dusk had heeded these pointed folktales from her literary son, she might not have had to endure so many impish terrors, from Stalin to Putin. Yet Tolstoy's parables are just as relevant to toxic American militarism and plutocracy right now.\"\" --Ched Myers and Elaine Enns, Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was one of the foremost Russian authors of the nineteenth century, known well for his novel, War and Peace. His ethical writings and short stories, which dealt with anarchist and pacifist themes, had a strong influence on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. One collection of his tales can be found in Walk in the Light \u0026amp; Twenty-Three Tales. Ted Lewis (Editor) is a restorative justice consultant and trainer for the Center for Restorative Justice \u0026amp; Peacemaking (University of Minnesota). He lives in Duluth, Minnesota, where he runs the Agape Peace Center.","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51569446846751,"sku":"9781532654947","price":23.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9781532654947_1613460.jpg?v=1769323658"},{"product_id":"o-christmas-three-394719","title":"O Christmas Three","description":"*\u003cstrong\u003eHeartwarming stories that recall Christmases past:\u003c\/strong\u003e*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  · O.Henry's all-American tale, \"The Gift of the Magi,\" originally published in 1906.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  · Leo Tolstoy's Russian folktale, \"Where Love Is, There God Is Also\" from 1887.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  · And Charles Dickens' little-known classics \"The Seven Poor Travellers\" and \"What Christmas Is As We Grow Older,\" from 1854 and 1851.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas…. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far. Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. They always are. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim.\" *- from the beginning of \"The Gift of the Magi\"*","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51569801527583,"sku":"9781557257765","price":43.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9781557257765_936428.jpg?v=1769330206"}],"url":"https:\/\/koorong.com\/collections\/leo-tolstoy.oembed","provider":"Koorong","version":"1.0","type":"link"}