A Confession (Maude's translation)

For other English-language translations of this work, see A Confession (Tolstoy).

A Confession (1882)
by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Aylmer Maude

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Written in 1879–80, and published two years later, this work is written by a 51-year-old Tolstoy who looks back, considering his life thus far a failure (despite his tremendous success and status as a writer, having already published War and Peace and Anna Karenina). Chapters 4-7 deal with a period during which he struggled with suicide.

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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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