书名：Great Ideas a Confession (Penguin Great Ideas)忏悔录-企鹅伟大的思想系列文学视野
作者：Leo Tolstoy
出版社名称：Penguin
出版时间：2008
语种：英语
ISBN：9780141036694
商品尺寸：11.1 x 0.7 x 18 cm
包装：平装
页数：112（以实物为准）

托尔斯泰，最伟大的作家、改革家，最有影响的道德思想家。他是一个个人主义贵族，而在他的晚年却很不成功地试图过一种穷苦农民的生活；他起初曾耽于声色，而最终却成为一个彻底的清教徒。他是“一个平凡的人”。他是我们息息相通的兄长，也带有现世的共同特点，只是比我们更有自知之明，更富有人情味，思想更缜密，目光更清晰，感情更奔放。这位天才道德家以残忍的狂热和无情的冷峻，对自己灵魂进行发掘。他一辈都在努力通过自我写照达到自我完善，从不停歇，从不崛起，从不让艺术流于形式。

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'. Although the Confession led to his excommunication, it also resulted in a large following of Tolstoyan Christians springing up throughout Russia and Europe.

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born in 1828 and educated privately. He studied Oriental languages and Law at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus in 1851. He served during the Crimean War and after the defence of Sebastopol wrote The Sebastopol Sketches, which established his reputation. He continued to write while developing educational projects, writing War and Peace and Anna Karenina between 1865 and 1876. A Confession marked an outward change in his life and works: he became an extreme rationalist and moralist, and his theories led to his excommunication from the Russian Holy Synod in 1901. He died in 1910.