Identifier: completeworksofl02tols (find matches)
Title: Complete works of Lyof N. Tolstoï
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 Dole, Nathan Haskell, 1852-1935
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Publisher: New York, San Francisco : Wheeler
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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..... \ MY CONFESSION MY RELIGION THE GOSPEL IN BRIEF Copyright, 1899,By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. INTRODUCTION Count Tolstois religious teachings are not allowedby the censorship to be published complete in Russia,but they are issued in a cheap pamphlet form printedin Geneva, Switzerland. This so-called Elpidin editionhas been used in preparing the present translation of My Confession, and My Religion, — or as it iscalled in the original, F Chom Moya Viera, In Whatmy Faith ? 1 If it varies in any material respect fromthe English translation made some years ago throughthe medium of the French, it is in the line of greatersimplicity. Count Tolstoi can hardly be called a stylist;he writes earnestly, convincingly, often eloquently, butnever hesitates to repeat, so that the word or set ofwords will be found recurring again and again even inthe same sentence. The French are stylists, and theymodify, condense, and amplify till the semblance ofform is sometimes lost, and the thought is t

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