Product Description: "A Season for Everything" is the story of a young athletic prodigy who goes from the peak of his potential to the cellar of despair and finds his calling when he learns to deny himself.

Product Description: Drawing on the tragic past of Russia and its empire to comment on the issues and ideas of his day, Leo Tolstoy wrote the stories in Divine and Human and Other Stories during the chaos surrounding the 1905 revolution. These stories, presented together for the first time, show the depth of, and contradictions in, Tolstoy's thought as he tried to reconcile his harsh religious beliefs with humanist appeals for justice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)