| A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts Contributor(s): Sekirin, Peter (Editor), Tolstoy, Leo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0684837935 ISBN-13: 9780684837932 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $25.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1997 Annotation: 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 pre-revolutionary 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Inspirational - Religion | Meditations - Self-help |
| Dewey: 087.1 |
| LCCN: 97023501 |
| Physical Information: 1.21" H x 5.22" W x 8.19" (1.05 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of daily thoughts to nourish the soul from the world's sacred texts by Leo Tolstoy feature gems of inspiration and wisdom--author Thomas Keneally calls this book "transcendent, and that we are grateful he lived long enough to endow us with his grand inheritance." 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 pre-revolutionary 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. |