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A confession and other religious writings

Tolstoy, LeoKentish, Jane(Introduction by)Kentish, Jane(Translated by)
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Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty.

By the time he was fifty, Tolstoy had already written the novels that would assure him of literary immortality; he had a wife, a large estate and numerous children; he was a happy man' and in good health - yet life had lost its meaning.

In this poignant confessional fragment, he records a period of his life when he began to turn away from fiction and aesthetics, and to search instead for a practical religion not promising future bliss, but giving bliss on earth'.

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Penguin Classics
0140444734 / 9780140444735
Paperback / softback
891.743
27/08/1987
United Kingdom
English
240 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: 1987.