Initially banned in his home country The Kingdom of God Is Within You is Leo Tolstoy's great non-fictional work. The zenith of Tolstoy's thirty years of Christian thinking, it sets out a plan for a new society guided by a literal Christian interpretation. Christ conceived of a society based on love, compassion and tolerance, and Tolstoy believed this was incompatible with violence. Tolstoy's response is the principle of nonresistance in the face of violence ...

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; The Biggest Frog Awakens; The Dance of the Sand-hill Cranes; The Young Minnow Who Would Not Eat When He Should; The Stickleback Father; The Careless Caddis Worm; The Tadpole Who Wanted to Be Grown-up; The Runaway Water Spiders; The Slow Little Mud Turtle; The Dragon-fly Children and the Snapping Turtle; The Snappy Snapping Turtle; The Clever Water-adder; The Good Little Cranes Who Were Bad; The Oldest Dragon-fly Nymph; The Eels' Moving-night; The Crayfish Mother; Two Little Crayfishes Quarrel; The Lucky Mink; The Playful Muskrats.