Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought

A profound book of great distinction and originality. . . . A brilliant synthesis of the evidence with respect to man's evolutionary direction. . . . I cannot imagine anyone reading this book who will not be profoundly influenced by it, and who will not wish to read it several times over, for it is a great work by a...

The Gospel in Brief lives at the center of Leo Tolstoy's thinking about the meaning of life... Beautifully translated by Dustin Condren... Although little known, this book remains hugely important. --Jay Parini, author of The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year The most celebrated novelist of all time, the author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace, retells...