A Confession and Other Religious Writings

A Confession and Other Religious Writings
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780141903828
ISBN-13 : 0141903821
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Book Synopsis A Confession and Other Religious Writings by : Leo Tolstoy

Download or read book A Confession and Other Religious Writings written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1987-08-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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