Forbidden Words: Forbidden Words: Tolstoy on God, Alcohol, Vegetarianism, and Violence
Forbidden Words: Forbidden Words: Tolstoy on God, Alcohol, Vegetarianism, and Violence by Leo Tolstoy
English | January 2nd, 2010 | ISBN: 1907355006 | 148 Pages | EPUB | 0.17 MB
English | January 2nd, 2010 | ISBN: 1907355006 | 148 Pages | EPUB | 0.17 MB
This book presents writings Tolstoy was never, in his lifetime, allowed to publish in his native Russia. He was a successful author by middle age; world famous for his novels 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina.' But after a mid-life spiritual awakening, Tolstoy chose a different direction, and for the last 30 years of his life, produced material that offended both Church and State.
His religious writings set him at odds with the Orthodox Church, and led eventually to his excommunication. His political and social writings set him in opposition to the government, and brought strict censorship and the threat of imprisonment. But though doors closed on him in Russia, doors opened for him elsewhere; for when Tolstoy's secretary and friend Vladimir Chertkov was exiled by the government in 1897, he travelled to England.
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