I really liked the way the characters stretched and grew and changed. Though on a completely different continent, in a completely different era, his insights still rang true. And it's fascinating how human nature remains so consistent through time. Particularly the one about the beehive without it's queen. His analogies and comparisons, that often began a chapter, while very verbose, were also poignantly memorable. I really love the way Tolstoy sees life lessons and bits of human nature in all the world around him. I finally finished it! Wahoo! And actually, it was much much much more enjoyable than I ever imagined it could be. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories.

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