
Tolstoy’s 22-volume collected works: major novels, tales, and late spiritual writings on God, death, and life’s meaning.
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Tolstoy’s 22-volume collected works: major novels, tales, and late spiritual writings on God, death, and life’s meaning.
Presents materials that reveal the essence of Tolstoy's beliefs on immortality, death, God, and the meaning of life. Contains two booklets ("About Immortality" No. 751 and "About Death" No. 752) compiled by Tolstoy comprising quotations from various philosophers explaining the meaning that death gives to life; essays explaining the actions that Tolstoy thought must be taken to grow spiritually; and finally, diary entries (translated here for the first time in English) pertaining to spiritual the...
will contain mild spoilers
Affairs, seduction, and desire in major novels; not graphic erotica
War battles, duels, and deaths; recurring but rarely extreme gore
Rare mild period language; little strong profanity
Recurring social and military drinking across aristocratic settings
No LGBTQ+ representation depicted
Devotional focus on God, immortality, faith, and Christian ethics
Mild folk and fairy-tale marvels in some shorter pieces
No occult or demonology content present
Central pacifism, social critique, and Christian anarchist themes
On-page suicide; sustained meditation on death and dying
Serfdom, poverty, coercion, and wartime cruelty recur
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