A Confession and Other Religious Writings
by Leo Tolstoy, Jane Kentish (Translator, Introduction by)
ISBN-10: 0140444734
ISBN-13: 9780140444735
$15.00
Book Specs
Binding
UK-B Format Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Published on
Jan 5, 1988
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
7.79x4.96x0.61 Inches
Weight
0.39 Pounds
About the Book
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'.