Now in English for the first time, here is Leo Tolstoy's timeless daybook of the world's spiritual wisdom. Created by the great Russian novelist as a guide for moral living, this beautiful treasury offers, in Tolstoy's words, "a wise thought for every day of the year from the greatest philosophers of all times and all peoples". Woodcuts.
This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years. Widely read in prerevolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism; and recently rediscovered to great excitement, A Calendar of Wisdom is a day-by-day guide that illuminates the path of a life worth living with a brightness undimmed by time. Unjustly censored for nearly a century, it deserves to be placed with the few books in our history that will never cease teaching us the essence of what is important in this world.