A Confession and Other Religious Writings
$22.63
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
30 November 1987
Summary
A Confession: Tolstoy’s Spiritual Awakening
The searingly honest, spiritual autobiography of Russia’s greatest novelist, written during a period of emotional crisis.
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140444735 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140444734 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Leo Tolstoy, Jane Kentish |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 November 1987 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 13mm |
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About The Author
Leo Tolstoy
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.
Jane Kentish is a lecturer in Byzantine and early Russian History and Art at the University of Sussex.
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