Tolstoy kept a diary for much of his adult life, and these journal entries from 1895–1899 — the years of his most intense religious activity and moral crisis — are among the most candid self-examinations left by any major writer. He records his daily struggle between his spiritual ideals and his earthly desires, his reflections on art and society, his conflicts with his family, and his continuing search for God.
An invaluable companion to his late fiction and essays, this journal volume is freely available as a public-domain EPUB download for anyone who wants to know what Tolstoy was thinking between the lines of his published works.