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Father Sergius

Author
Leo Tolstoy
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
64 pages
ISBN
9781787240490
Published
3 January 2017
Imprint
Sovereign
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Petersburg, the 1840s: a handsome guards officer breaks an imperial career, an engagement, and a small estate, and goes to be a monk. Tolstoy’s Father Sergius is Kasatsky’s pride in a cassock — fame as a holy man, a woman at the cell, the long failure of wanting to be better than other men. Sovereign ebook: morality without a tidy halo. Redemption that still has a body. A late Tolstoy tale of the brilliant prince who could not stop performing virtue.

Author

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was born to a titled family at Yasnaya Polyana, served in the Crimean War, and wrote the two novels that made Russian fiction a world event: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The first holds a nation at war and at home; the second holds a marriage until it breaks. Later he turned from the worldly novel toward essays and moral tales, arguing with church, property, and his own fame. One hundred and six titles here.

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