God and Man According To Tolstoy [Paperback]

With a critical look at Tolstoy's persona, faith, and thought, this book treats the writer as a midwife of modern counterculture. It shows and tries to correct the metaphysical blunder on which Tolstoy's philosophy was based.Uncovering the Secret What Kind of Man Would Take On God? Religion Without Faith, Christianity Without Christ A Confession That Was Not Quite Tolstoy's Faith, Such as it Was The Gospel According to Leo Desperately Seeking Golgotha Sex, Lies and Ethics An Impractical Idea of a Practical Life Tolstoy as a Russian The Lessons of Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy was the archetype of the modern secular guru and in this book Boot brilliantly and irrefutably demonstrates the shallow, egotistical, and irreligious nature of his thought. In doing so, he sheds much light not only on Tolstoy, but upon Russia and the modern world. - Theodore Dalrymple

Boot constructs a convincing psychological and moral sketch of Tolstoy. - Quadrant