Not just the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, two of the greatest novels ever written, Tolstoy was an enormously influential and prolific social, moral, and religious philosopher whose radical ideas still make him a highly controversial figure in Russia today. He espoused pacifism, an end to social hierarchy, vegetarianism, and rejected marriage. He also became a kind of fundamentalist christian and violently condemned the relationship between...

Tolstoy's novel re-imagined in a world technology is dominant and androids are faithful companions. Anna and her enigmatic Android Karenina leave a loveless marriage for an affair with Count Vronsky creating chaos that ripples through their lives, their families, and the world.

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Divine and Human is a collection of previously undiscovered and untranslated (into English) stories by the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy that probes the complexities of life and faith.