The greatest novelist of all time retells the greatest story ever told, the life of Jesus Christ, in The Gospel in BriefLeo Tolstoys riveting, novelistic integration of the four Gospels into a single, twelve-chapter narrative. Virtually unknown to English readers until now, Dustin Condrens groundbreaking translation from the Russian opens a precious new world of Tolstoys masterful literary talent to fans of War and Peace and Anna Karenina.