Constance Garnett
2) The kingdom of God is within you: Christianity not as a mystic religion but as a new theory of life
Initially banned in his home country The Kingdom of God Is Within You is Leo Tolstoy's great non-fictional work. The zenith of Tolstoy's thirty years of Christian thinking, it sets out a plan for a new society guided by a literal Christian interpretation. Christ conceived of a society based on love, compassion and tolerance, and Tolstoy believed this was incompatible with violence. Tolstoy's response is the principle of nonresistance in
...6) The idiot
7) First love
On one level the novel is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again - only to lose it. The sense of loss and of unfulfilled promise, beautifully captured by Turgenev, reflects his underlying theme that humanity is not destined to experience happiness except as something ephemeral and inevitably doomed. On another level Turgenev is presenting the homecoming of
...The Wife and Other Stories includes:
"The Wife"
"Difficult People"
The Grasshopper"
"A Dreary Story"
"The Privy Councillor"
"The Man in a Case"
"Gooseberries"
"About Love"
"The Lottery Ticket"