{"product_id":"a-confession-and-other-religious-writings-by-leo-tolstoy-9780140444735","title":"A Confession and Other Religious Writings","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescribing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, \u003cem\u003eA Confession\u003c\/em\u003e (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the time he was fifty, Tolstoy had already written the novels that would assure him of literary immortality; he had a wife, a large estate and numerous children; he was a happy man and in good health—yet life had lost its meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this poignant confessional fragment, he records a period of his life when he began to turn away from fiction and aesthetics, and to search instead for a practical religion not promising future bliss, but giving bliss on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46486480912620,"sku":"9780140444735","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27335123482237.jpg?v=1748315438","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/a-confession-and-other-religious-writings-by-leo-tolstoy-9780140444735","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}