To the Working People and The Candle (EasyRead Large Edition)

Product Description <br/>To the Working People and The Candle are two pieces by Leo Tolstoy. To the Working People (1902) is a letter written by the author during the last days of his life. It addresses the Russian peasants and advocates non-violent resistance against oppression and exploitation. The Candle (1890) deals with poor socio-economic conditions, obstacles created by the elites, and the efforts of the oppressed to win their rights.<br/> About the Author <br/>Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher noted for his ideas of nonviolent resistance. His diary reveals an incessant pursuit of a morally justified life. He was known for his generosity to the peasants.His best known novels are War and Peace (1869), which Tolstoy regarded as an epic rather than a novel, and Anna Karenina (1877). His work was admired in his time by Dostoyevsky, Checkov, Turgenev, and Flaubert, and later by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.