The Three Hermits: Leo Tolstoy

by Leo Tolstoy, Anoosha Gopinath (Illustrator)

A fresh and beautifully illustrated edition as a Children's Book based on Leo Tolstoy's timeless and delightful short story "The Three Hermits" by Bangalore-based illustrator Anoosha Gopinath.

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Classics

16 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 23, 2018

About the author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reviews

[Gabi Lampman · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5⭐️

[Prisha · Rating 3 out of 5]

am I stupid or this supposed to be commentary on the forceful spread of religion on indigenous people

[Augurey · Rating 4 out of 5]

[book 3 of 2024 reading challenge]

learn that each individual has their way of asking God for their deepest needs and sorrows. This story reminded me deeply of old believers who have been praying for God their whole lives with true intentions and a pure heart, but when taught a different way of praying, their age deprives them of remembering, thus, it creates cognitive stress which instead of helping them into a different way of having their relation with God where they were at ease, into stressing and losing the purity and spontaneity of their prayers.

[Jessie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not religious but found this story somewhat comforting especially in today’s complicated religious landscape. That true spirituality shouldn’t be focused on rigid dogma and how it boils down to just something simple, sincere and accessible to all.

[Renata Sutton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I choose this book as part of my goal to read something I normally wouldn't read.
I could see my self reading it again as I really enjoyed it.

[Christian Villarruel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not the best from tolstoy, but the simplicity of his stories ensure your time is never wasted

[megean · Rating 1 out of 5]

felt like I was being lectured on religion

[Liz · Rating 3 out of 5]

lol...
This says a lot about religion and how I sometimes feel about it. Also, how did they run that fast? Are they secretly the flash?