A Dialogue Among Clever People

by Leo Tolstoy

A Dialogue Among Clever People
Leo Tolstoy, russian writer, master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the world's greatest novelist (1828-1910)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
-01- ABOUT THIS BOOK
-02- A DIALOGUE AMONG CLEVER PEOPLE

Genres: Short Stories

6 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 8, 2014

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

[Tym · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing special imho

[Juergen John Roscher · Rating 3 out of 5]

"... So, the upshot is that it is impossible for anyone to live well, but only to talk about it."

[WafflingCozmonaught · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's fine. Not a whole lot happens, but Tolstoy's clever language salvages the snoozefest.

5/10

[CH0MSKY H0NK · Rating 3 out of 5]

Worth a read but also feels underwritten and poorly translated.

[Kamal Fasya · Rating 2 out of 5]

perhaps in his time such dialogue seems clever—wanting to struggle under godly way of life in spite of stability—sounds badass and whatnot. The wife defeatist personality sort of relatable yet annoying a little (just like me ahhahha). This kind of writing bores me and to be fair it's expected as i myself comes from not-so-religious background and uhhh an okay-ish short-read while waiting for my friend.