Novellas & Stories with Christian Themes

by Leo Tolstoy, Michael Beck (Narrator)

Listening Length 8 hours and 43 minutes

This group of six short stories has been hand-selected by the publisher to provide a sampling of Tolstoy's thoughts about what it means to live out the Christian life.

Tolstoy’s short stories and novellas are considered to be some of the greatest penned in the 20th century. Many of these stories have strong Christian themes, revealing Tolstoy’s own sincere faith along with important lessons and ideals. These stories often focus on self-sacrifice, the sovereignty of God, and the fulfillment and happiness that comes with living for others. Included in this unique set are the following stories: 1) "Where Love Is, There God Is Also"; 2) "Father Sergius"; 3) "What Men Live By"; 4) "God Sees the Truth but Waits"; 5) "Master and Man"; 6) "The Death of Ivan Ilyich".

9 pages, Audiobook

Published June 18, 2021

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.

See also:
French → Léon Tolstoï
Spanish → León Tolstói

Reviews

[Andrew Lucas · Rating 5 out of 5]

the stories are excellent and beautiful.

every young man should read Father Sergius