My Confession: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
My Confession by Leo Tolstoy: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 16 original MP3 tracks, 2:41:29 running time and a link to listen.
My Confession, credited to Leo Tolstoy, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of My Confession by Leo Tolstoy. Read in English by Expatriate "My Confession" is a brief autobiographical story of Leo Tolstoy's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. It describes his search for answers to the profound questions "What will come of my life?" and "What is the meaning of life?", without answers to which life, for him, had become "impossible." Tolstoy reflects on the arc of his philosophical life until then: his childhood abandonment of his Russian orthodox faith; his mastery of strength, will, power, and reason; and how, after he had achieved tremendous financial success and social status, life to him seemed meaningless. After despairing of his attempts to find answers in science, philosophy, eastern wisdom, and his fellow men of letters, he describes his turn to the wisdom of the common people and his attempts to reconcile their instinctive faith with the dictates of his reason. The main body of the text ends with the author reaching a compromise: faith, he realizes, is a necessity, but it must be constrained by reason. However, an epilogue that describes a dream he had some time after completing the body of the text suggests that he has undergone a radical personal and spiritual transformation. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Recording facts
- Recording title: My Confession
- Author credits: Leo Tolstoy
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 16
- Listed recording duration: 2:41:29
Catalogue topics
- philosophy
- Russian Literature
- Leo Tolstoy
- spiritual quest
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter 01 — 9:28
- 02 - Chapter 02 — 9:49
- 03 - Chapter 03 — 10:35
- 04 - Chapter 04 — 11:12
- 05 - Chapter 05 — 13:45
- 06 - Chapter 06 — 16:57
- 07 - Chapter 07 — 12:13
- 08 - Chapter 08 — 6:34
- 09 - Chapter 09 — 11:39
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 8:39
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 6:41
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 10:43
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 8:28
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 6:30
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 9:15
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 9:00
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