A calendar of wisdom
Subtitle: daily thoughts to nourish the soul
By: written and selected from the world's sacred texts by Leo Tolstoy ; translated from the Russian by Peter Sekirin.
Contributors: Sekirin, Peter.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Conduct of life -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
Description: This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years. Widely read in prerevolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism; and recently rediscovered to great excitement, A Calendar of Wisdom is a day-by-day guide that illuminates the path of a life worth living with a brightness undimmed by time. Unjustly censored for nearly a century, it deserves to be placed with the few books in our history that will never cease teaching us the essence of what is important in this world.
Notes: This translation, drawn from the enl. and completely rev. second ed., does not include the fifty-two stories called "The Sunday reading stories."
Includes index.