What I Believe: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

What I Believe, 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 What I Believe, by Leo Tolstoy; translated by Constantine Popoff. Read by David Barnes. "The inner working of my soul, which I wish to speak of here, was not the result of a methodical investigation of doctrinal theology, or of the actual texts of the gospel; it was a sudden removal of all that hid the true meaning of the Christian doctrine – a momentary flash of light, which made everything clear to me. It was something like that which might happen to a man who, after vainly attempting, by a false plan, to build up a statue out of a confused heap of small pieces of marble, suddenly guesses at the figure they are intended to form by the shape of the largest piece; and then, on beginning to set up the statue, finds his guess confirmed by the harmonious joining in of the various pieces." (Extract from Chapter 1)

Recording facts

• Recording title: What I Believe
• Author credits: Leo Tolstoy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 7:58:50

Catalogue topics

• Religion
• Christianity
• philosophy

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface and Introduction — 7:20
2. 01 - Chapter 1 — 19:18
3. 02 - Chapter 2 — 14:15
4. 03 - Chapter 3 — 34:09
5. 04 - Chapter 4 — 23:09
6. 05 - Chapter 5 — 38:15
7. 06 - Chapter 6, part 1 — 47:03
8. 07 - Chapter 6, part 2 — 35:32
9. 08 - Chapter 7 — 38:24
10. 09 - Chapter 8 — 53:56
11. 10 - Chapter 9 — 26:59
12. 11 - Chapter 10 — 57:56
13. 12 - Chapter 11 — 53:03
14. 13 - Chapter 12 — 29:37

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