'Re-Appraisals is a protest against the prevailing assumptions and directions of our whole literary culture- its arrogance, its irresponsibility, but above all its domination by the cliches of modern despair. Green is consistently asking a very simple question: is this book any good? And he shows us just how various and liberating a really steady response to that question can be.

First published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in Russia, The Kingdom of God Is within You reveals Tolstoy's world outlook after his conversion to Christianity. He argues that the kingdom of God is within reach of all. The core of the book deals with his nonresistance to evil, a principle Tolstoy passionately advocated. Gandhi was won over by the book. Tolstoy clearly describes the hazards that bullying governments and false beliefs produced. "The situation of the Christian part of humanity-with its prisons, forced labor, gallows, saloons, brothels, constantly increasing armaments,...

Beginning where the autobiography left off, Green has selected letters, essays, interviews, and speeches that offer a complete self-narration of Gandhi's life from 1920 to 1948.