The Kingdom of God Is Within You

by Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett (translator), Patrick Maxwell (introduction)

This fully annotated edition of “The Kingdom of God is Within You” While Leo Tolstoy is known for writing literary masterpieces like War and Peace and Anna Karenina, it is this exceptional work of philosophical insight which readers such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. regarded as his true magnum opus.

Featuring notes from the original translator, and a Foreword by author Keith Giles, this new edition from Quoir Classics is republished in the hopes that a new audience might discover Tolstoy's uncommon theological genius and become unraveled by the power of Christ's radical ideas that dissolve nations, armies, political ideologies, and—even more—our very own conception of ourselves.

Quoir Classics, an imprint of Quoir Publishing, is dedicated to the rejuvenation of great works from exceptional authors of literature, poetry, philosophy and mysticism that still resonate with modern readers today.

251 pages, Paperback

Published January 31, 2024

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.