{"product_id":"the-gospel-in-brief-the-life-of-jesus-isbn-9780061993459","title":"The Gospel in Brief: The Life of Jesus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Gospel in Brief\u003c\/em\u003e lives at the center of Leo Tolstoy’s thinking about the meaning of life. ... Beautifully translated by Dustin Condren. ... Although little known, this book remains hugely important.” --Jay Parini, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most celebrated novelist of all time, the author of \u003cem\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/em\u003e, retells \"the greatest story ever told,\" integrating the four Gospels into a single twelve-chapter narrative of the life of Jesus. Based on his study of early Christian texts, Leo Tolstoy's remarkable \u003cem\u003eThe Gospel in Brief\u003c\/em\u003e—virtually unknown to English readers until this landmark new translation by Dustin Condren—makes accessible the powerful, mystical truth of Jesus's spiritual teaching, stripped of artificial church doctrine. \"If you are not acquainted with \u003cem\u003eThe Gospel in Brief\u003c\/em\u003e,\" wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose life was profoundly influenced by it, \"then you cannot imagine what an effect it can have upon a person.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fresh translation destined to introduce a new generation to a fuller understanding of Tolstoy’s mind.” --\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dustin Condren captures, in this fresh idiomatic translation, the dazzlingly audacious achievement of \u003cem\u003eThe Gospel in Brief,\u003c\/em\u003e Tolstoy’s daring synthesis the New Testament accounts of Jesus.” --Edward E. 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If you are not acquainted with it, then you cannot imagine what an effect it can have upon a person.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLudwig Wittgenstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Gospel in Brief\u003c\/em\u003e lives at the center of Leo Tolstoy’s thinking about the meaning of life. In this absorbing volume -- beautifully translated by Dustin Condren -- the greatest of Russian authors revisits the Gospels with characteristic boldness, pushing through to the fiery core of Christianity. Although little known, this book remains hugely important.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJay Parini, author of The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dustin Condren captures, in this fresh idiomatic translation, the dazzlingly audacious achievement of \u003ci\u003eThe Gospel in Brief,\u003c\/i\u003e  Tolstoy’s daring synthesis the New Testament accounts of Jesus.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdward E. Ericson, Jr., editor of The Solzhenitsyn Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating and thoroughly unorthodox rewriting of the Gospels and restatement of Christianity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is the first English translation in more than a century; Condren worked from Tolstoy’s original version and restored material deleted in previous translations. 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