http://www.metafilter.com/tags/LeoTolstoy Posts tagged with 'LeoTolstoy' at MetaFilter. Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:32:36 -0800 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:32:36 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/69157/Over%2D2000%2Dclassic%2Dshort%2Dstories <a href="http://www.americanliterature.com/sstitleindex.html">Over 2000 classic short stories</a> from <a href="http://www.americanliterature.com/">American Literature</a> as well as an option to sign up for a <a href="http://www.americanliterature.com/ss/ssotdsignup.html">short story of the day</a> rss feed. Among the authors on offer are Kate Chopin, Saki, O. Henry, Louisa May Alcott, Ambrose Bierce, H. P. Lovecraft, Jack London, James Joyce, Willa Cather, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Herman Hesse, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, Honor&#0233; de Balzac, Edith Warton, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes, Leo Tolstoy, Aldous Huxley, Roald Dahl, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield and I could keep going for a while. The point is, there's over 2000 short stories in there. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69157 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:32:36 -0800 AmbroseBierce CharlesDickens EdithWharton FranzKafka FScottFitzgerald GuydeMaupassant HenryJames HermanHesse HonorédeBalzac HPLovecraft JackLondon JamesJoyce KateChopin KatherineMansfield LangstonHughes LeoTolstoy literature LouisaMayAlcott MarkTwain OHenry OscarWilde PGWodehouse RoaldDahl Saki shortfiction shortstories VirginiaWoolf WillaCather Kattullus http://www.metafilter.com/33765/The%2DKingdom%2DOf%2DGod%2DIs%2DWithin%2DYou <a href="http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/tolstoy/lettertogandhi.html">Dear Leo, Dear Mohandas</a> "The longer I live -- especially now when I clearly feel the approach of death -- the more I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than anything else... the doctrine of the law of love unperverted by sophistries. Love... the highest and indeed the only law of life". <a href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4602">The Kingdom of God Is Within You</a> (full text available) is<a href="http://www.ltolstoy.com/"> Leo Tolstoy</a>'s tractatus of "<a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/acts.html">Christianity</a> Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life", a primer of (among other things) the doctrine of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa">non-violence</a>. Among the many <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,6121,132930,00.html">fans</a> of the 1894 book was an <a href="http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/people/gandhi/2.html">imprisoned</a> Hindu barrister, a <a href="http://www.kamat.com/mmgandhi/churchill.htm">"half-naked fakir"</a> if you want, a certain <a href="http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/gandhi.html">Mohandas</a> K.<a href="http://www.mkgandhi.org/index.htm"> Gandhi</a> who was fascinated by <a href="http://cyberspacei.com/jesusi/light/kg/martin_green.htm">"the independent thinking, profound morality, and the truthfulness"</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdom_of_God_is_Within_You">book</a>. So he ended up writing fan letters to the great Russian man: who warmly wrote back to his young Indian "friend and brother". The old wise <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_anarchism">Christian anarchist</a> literary <a href="http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_to_a_Hindu_-_Leo_Tolstoy">giant</a> and the shy, insecure <a href="http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/chronology/special-chrono/gandhi.htm">young man</a> who sparked a revolution: to paraphrase another wise, <a href="http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/space/stellardeath/graphics/einstein.jpg">badly-dressed</a> <a href="http://www.alberteinstein.info/">, pacifist old man</a>, "Generations to come, it may be, will scarcely believe that such men ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth." tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.33765 Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:48:33 -0800 christianity gandhi hinduism India leotolstoy mahatmagandhi mohandasgandhi mysticism pacifism religion Russia tolstoy matteo