What Shall We Do Then?

By Leo Tolstoy and Lev Tolstoy

Book Overview

Poverty, exploitation and greed seem to be perennial aspects of the human condition and it is these issues that Tolstoy addresses in What Then Must We Do? At the time of its publication, the book had... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141010513X
• ISBN13: 9781410105134
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The essence of later Tolstoy

What a pity that this book is so expensive. Check it out from a university library. It's not "War and Peace" but it does contain the essence of later Tolstoy. With fervent humanism and more than a little aristocratic guilt, the great writer asks how we are to deal with the poor among us. His first remedy upon meeting a beggar -- giving the man all his money -- doesn't seem to change much so he begins a deep examination of the problem of inequality in human life, asking questions we might all do well to consider.