A Confession by Leo Tolstoy

A Confession by Leo Tolstoy

Describes Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world. This work describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'.

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born in 1828 and educated privately. He studied Oriental languages and Law at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus in 1851. He served during the Crimean War and after the defence of Sebastopol wrote The Sebastopol Sketches, which established his reputation. He continued to write while developing educational projects, writing War and Peace and Anna Karenina between 1865 and 1876. A Confession marked an outward change in his life and works: he became an extreme rationalist and moralist, and his theories led to his excommunication from the Russian Holy Synod in 1901. He died in 1910.

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ISBN 13	9780141036694
ISBN 10	0141036699
Title	A Confession
Author	Leo Tolstoy
Series	Penguin Great Ideas
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2008-08-07
Number of pages	112
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