A Calendar of Wisdom

It is the first English-language edition of the book Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, a work of his last years that is distinguished by its spiritual and moral message; a book whose lush text with universal appeal is at the same time timelessly daunting. Its unjustly censored status in Russia for nearly a century has resulted in a rediscovery that has placed it alongside other works in history that will never cease teaching us what is truly important in this world.