The Gospel in Brief - (Harper Perennial Modern Thought) by Leo Tolstoy & Dustin Condren (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In Tolstoy's "The Gospel in Brief," the greatest novelist of all time retells the greatest story ever told--the life of Jesus Christ--in this integration of the four Gospels into a single, 12-chapter narrative.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"<em>The Gospel in Brief</em> 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 <em>The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year</em></strong></p><p>The most celebrated novelist of all time, the author of <em>Anna Karenina</em> and <em>War and Peace</em>, retells the greatest story ever told, integrating the four Gospels into a single twelve-chapter narrative of the life of Jesus. Based on his study of early Christian texts, Leo Tolstoy's remarkable <em>The Gospel in Brief</em>--virtually unknown to English readers until this landmark new translation by Dustin Condren--makes accessible the powerful, mystical truth of Jesus's spiritual teaching, stripped of artificial church doctrine. If you are not acquainted with <em>The Gospel in Brief</em>, wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose life was profoundly influenced by it, then you cannot imagine what an effect it can have upon a person. </p><p>"A fresh translation destined to introduce a new generation to a fuller understanding of Tolstoy's mind." --<em>Kirkus Reviews</em><br/></p><p>"Dustin Condren captures, in this fresh idiomatic translation, the dazzlingly audacious achievement of <em>The Gospel in Brief, </em> Tolstoy's daring synthesis the New Testament accounts of Jesus." --Edward E. Ericson, Jr., editor of <em>The Solzhenitsyn Reader</em><br/><br/>"Newly translated by Dustin Condren, Tolstoy's <em>Gospel in Brief</em> offers us a Jesus stripped of the overlay of Christian dogma and ancient metaphysics: his Jesus confronts readers with a real challenge and a call to change their lives." --George Pattison, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford, and canon of Christ Church Cathedral<br/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>The most celebrated novelist of all time retells the greatest story ever told, integrating the four Gospels into a single twelve-chapter narrative of the life of Jesus. Based on his study of early Christian texts, Leo Tolstoy's remarkable <em>The Gospel in Brief</em>--virtually unknown to English readers until this landmark new translation by Dustin Condren--makes accessible the powerful, mystical truth of Jesus's spiritual teaching, stripped of artificial church doctrine. If you are not acquainted with <em>The Gospel in Brief</em>, wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose life was profoundly influenced by it, then you cannot imagine what an effect it can have upon a person.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A fascinating and thoroughly unorthodox rewriting of the Gospels and restatement of Christianity."--<em>Booklist</em><br><br>"A fresh translation destined to introduce a new generation to a fuller understanding of Tolstoy's mind."--<em>Kirkus Reviews</em><br><br>"This is the first English translation in more than a century; Condren worked from Tolstoy's original version and restored material deleted in previous translations. The result is not unlike Hermann Hesse's 'Siddhartha' -- the story of a life that illustrates a path."--<em>Los Angeles Times</em><br><br>"<i>The Gospel in Brief</i> 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 <i>The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year</i><br><br>"Dustin Condren captures, in this fresh idiomatic translation, the dazzlingly audacious achievement of <i>The Gospel in Brief, </i> Tolstoy's daring synthesis the New Testament accounts of Jesus."--Edward E. Ericson, Jr., editor of <i>The Solzhenitsyn Reader</i><br><br>"Newly translated by Dustin Condren, Tolstoy's <i>Gospel in Brief</i> offers us a Jesus stripped of the overlay of Christian dogma and ancient metaphysics: his Jesus confronts readers with a real challenge and a call to change their lives."--George Pattison, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford, and canon of Christ Church Cathedral<br>
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