A Confession
Where There is Life There is Faith
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- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2008
Summary
‘Where there is life there is faith’ - Leo Tolstoy
Describing Tolstoy’s crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for ‘a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth’. Although the Confession led to his excommunication, it also resulted in a large following of Tolstoyan Christians springing up throughout Russia and Europe.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141036694 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141036699 |
| Author: | Leo Tolstoy, Jane Kentish |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 72g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 113mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Penguin Great Ideas |
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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.
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