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Tolstoy Christian Period
2 items | Last modified May 19, 2024Starting with My Confession until his death in 1910. The translator Aylmer Maude describe the works of Tolstoy during his last 20 myears as:
He commenced the task when he was about fifty years of age, and since then (i.e., during the last twenty years) he has produced nine philosophical or scientific works of first-rate importance, besides a great many stories and short articles. xiiThese works, in chronological order, are—
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My Confession.
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A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology, which has never been translated.
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The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated, of which only two parts, out of three, have as yet appeared in English.
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What I Believe, sometimes called My Religion.
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The Gospel in Brief.
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What are we to do then? sometimes called in English What to do?
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On Life, which is not an easy work in the original, and has not been satisfactorily translated.
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The Kingdom of God is within you.
- The Christian Teaching, which appeared after What is Art? though it was written before it.
To these scientific works I am inclined to add The Kreutzer Sonata, with the Sequel or Postscript explaining its purpose; for though The Kreutzer Sonata is a story, the understanding of sexual problems, dealt with explicitly in the Sequel[...]
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My Confession.