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A Confession and Other Religious Writings

An account of a spiritual crisis, marking a shift of Tolstoy's central focus from the aesthetic to the religious and philosophical.

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A confession —

What is religion and of what does its essence consist? —

Religion and morality —

The law of love and the law of violence.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 238 pages

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