The life and works of Leo Tolstoy. Coming 2028.
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A Confession (1879–82): his account of his own crisis, in Aylmer Maude's 1921 English, with read-along audio.
The Great Sin (1905): on land and property, in the English of its own year (A Great Iniquity), with read-along audio.
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