A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy. New York. 1997. Scribner. 0684837935. 1st Appearance In English Of These Daily Thoughts To Nourish The Soul Written and Selected From The World's Sacred Texts. Translated from the Russian by Peter Sekirin. 384 pages. paperback.
DESCRIPTION - 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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY - Count Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 on the family estate of Yasnaya Polyana. In 1844, he entered the University of Kazan to read Oriental languages and later law, but left before completing a degree. In 1851, he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He took part in the Crimean War and after the defense of Sevastopol wrote THE SEVASTOPOL SKETCHES (1855), which established his literary reputation. After leaving the army in 1856, Tolstoy spent some time mixing in literary circles in St. Petersburg and abroad, finally settling at Yasnaya Polyana, where he involved himself in the running of peasant schools and the emancipation of the serfs. In 1862, he married Sofya Andreevna Behrs; they had thirteen children. Tolstoy wrote two great novels, WAR AND PEACE (1869) and ANNA KARENINA (1877). His works, which include many short stories and essays, earned him numerous followers in Russia and abroad. He died in 1910. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced acclaimed translations of works by Mikhail Bulgakov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, and Leo Tolstoy. Their translation of Dostoevsky's THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. Their translations of Tolstoy's WHAT IS ART? and Bulgakov's THE MASTER AND MARGARITA are published in Penguin Classics. Pevear, a native of Boston and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married to each other and live in Paris.
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