Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who earned fame and global renown for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina . Writing during the late 19th century,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
What a pity that this book is so expensive. Check it out from a university library. It's not "War and Peace" but it does contain the essence of later Tolstoy. With fervent humanism and more than a little aristocratic guilt, the great writer asks how we are to deal with the poor among us. His first remedy upon meeting a beggar -- giving the man all his money -- doesn't seem to change much so he begins a deep examination of the problem of inequality in human life, asking questions we might all do well to consider.
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