Further Reading
- Additional coverage of Tolstoy's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 104, 123; Discovering Authors; Discovering Authors: British; Discovering Authors: Canadian; Discovering Authors Modules: Most-Studied and Novelists; Short Story Criticism, Vol. 9; Something About the Author, Vol. 26; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vols. 4, 11, 17, 28, 44; and World Literature Criticism.
- Christian, R. F., "'Confession' and 'Resurrection'," in Tolstoy: A Critical Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1969, pp. 212-29. (Contends that Tolstoy's religious conversion occurred gradually over many years and is evident in works as early as his Childhood.)
- Clive, Geoffrey, "Tolstoy and the Varieties of the Inauthentic," in The Broken Icon: Intuitive Existentialism in Classical Russian Fiction, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972, pp. 86-127. (Examines Tolstoy's existential leanings.)
- Edie, James M.; James P. Scanlan; and Mary-Barbara Zeldin, eds., "Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy," in Russian Philosophy, Vol. II: The Nihilists, The Populists, Critics of Religion and Culture, Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1965, pp. 208-212. (Provides a brief overview of Tolstoy's religious conversion, as well as an introduction to Tolstoy's The Law of Violence and the Law of Love.)
- Egan, David R., and Melinda A. Egan, Leo Tolstoy: An Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Sources to 1978, Metuchen, N.J. and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1979, 267 p. (Contains a section devoted to secondary sources on Tolstoy's religious and philosophical writings.)
- Greenwood, E. B., Tolstoy: The Comprehensive Vision, London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1975, 184 p. (Analysis of Tolstoy's philosophy as evidenced in his work.)
- Kentish, Jane, An Introduction to A Confession and Other Religious Writings, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1987, pp. 7-15. (Provides a biographical overview of Tolstoy's conversion.)
- Kvitko, David, A Philosophic Study of Tolstoy, New York: David Kvitko, 1927, 119 p. (Contends that Tolstoy did not suffer a spiritual crisis, but rather that the basic tenets of his beliefs were present even in his earliest writings.)
- Maude, Aylmer, An Introduction to A Confession, The Gospel in Brief, and What I Believe, by Leo Tolstoy, London: Oxford University Press, 1940, pp. vii-xvi. (Briefly expounds on Tolstoy's major religious principles and discusses the wider influence of his work in Christian cultures.)
- Redfearn, David, Tolstoy: Principles for a New World Order, London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1992, 196 p. (Examines the ongoing influence of Tolstoy's religious thought and its practical applications, such as his vegetarianism, pacifism, and social philosophy.)
- Rexroth, Kenneth, An Introduction to The Kingdom of God Is within You, by Leo Tolstoy, New York: The Noonday Press, 1961, pp. v-x. (Debates popular speculation about Tolstoy's character as a religious visionary, concluding that his philosophy was in the end that of the commoner.)
- Spence, G. W., Tolstoy the Ascetic, Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1967, 154 p. (Analyzes the principles of Tolstoy's asceticism as he presented them in his writings and in his life.)
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