Product Description <br/>In What to do? Leo Tolstoy discusses many burning issues of his society in a comprehensive and direct manner. His brilliant style of expression provoked deep thought in the minds of contemporary readers and still stimulates people to question their basic beliefs. The boldness of manner and content yet again proves the genius of Tolstoy.<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.