Hadji Murad. The Raid

by Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (Translation), Louise Maude (Translation)

The book includes two novels by Leo Tolstoy, "Hadji Murad" and "The Raid," dedicated to the Caucasus War of the 19th century.

Kindle Edition

Published April 1, 2013

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

[Eman Ghanem · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read Hadji Murad during the last summer, and since then I cannot overcome its celestial influence. In essence, the dilemma of Hadji Murad transcends your feelings as a reader to let you identify with him by all the means. I would call the story of Hadji Murad with its ending a story of noble sadness!

[Fred Misurella · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great moral tale from the master. It's a must read if you are like me and believe Tolstoi is up there with Shakespeare and Dante as one of the all-time greats.

[Ceri and Rumaysa Davies · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hadji Murad is one of my all time favourites. Tolstoy's description of the noble Chechen warrior is wonderful.