Leo Tolstoy

Broschiertes Buch

A Confession and Other Religious Writings

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 1987
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 184g
• ISBN-13: 9780140444735
• ISBN-10: 0140444734
• Artikelnr.: 21545582