A Confession and Other Religious Writings
Leo Tolstoy
(Author)
Jane Kentish
(Translator)
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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'.Product Details
Price
£10.99
£10.44
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publish Date
27 August 1987
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780140444735
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