Description
| Product ID: | 9780140444735 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Confession and Other Religious Writings |
| Authors: | Author: Leo Tolstoy, Jane Kentish |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, Religion: general, Religion: general |
| Description: | This is a reader covering Tolstoy's later beliefs after he had rejected orthodox religion. The book mainly draws on "Confession" (1879), "What is My Faith?" (1884) and other occasional pieces. 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''. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1987-08-27 |
