Confession and Other Religious Writings

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...