A Confession

Informationen zum Autor Leo Tolstoy Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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'.

Product details

• Authors: Leo N. Tolstoi, Leo Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Tolstoy Leo
• Assisted by: Jane Kentish (Translation), Kentish Jane (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.08.2008
• EAN: 9780141036694
• ISBN: 978-0-14-103669-4
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Penguin Great Ideas; Great Ideas; Penguin Press Great Ideas; Penguin Great Ideas; Penguin Press Great Ideas
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Literary essays, Philosophy of religion