Leo Tolstoy's Search for the Meaning of Life
Long before Tolstoy experienced the psychological crisis that led to his decadeslong effort to rethink Christianity, he was concerned with spiritual questions. Anyone who has read his two great novels, 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina,' will recall how their heroes wrestle with the same questions that beset the author: Is there something beyond the material world? Does death, which turns our efforts to dust, make life absurd?
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