A Confession by Leo Tolstoy (all ebook reader .txt) 📕

my Life of Tolstoy, he says that “The Authorized English version [of Ecclesiastes] is bad.” ↩

This passage is noteworthy as being one of the few references made by Tolstoy at this period to the revolutionary or “Back-to-the-People” movement, in which many young men and women were risking and sacrificing home, property, and life itself from motives which had much in common with his own perception that the upper layers of Society are parasitic and prey on the vitals of the people who support them. ↩

In Russia Sunday was called Resurrection-day. ↩

A sect that rejects sacraments and ritual. ↩

At the time this was written, capital punishment was considered to be abolished in Russia. ↩

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A Confession
was published in 1882 by
Leo Tolstoy.
It was translated from Russian in 1921 by
Aylmer Maude.

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May you do good and not evil.
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

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