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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 Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780140444735
eBay Product ID (ePID)88512621
Product Key Features
Book TitleA Confession and Other Religious Writings
AuthorLeo Tolstoy
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPopular Philosophy, Literary Theory
Publication Year1987
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorLeo Tolstoy
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom