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The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated

Leo Tolstoy

Second volume of the religious treatise: Tolstoy translates the four Gospels from the Greek, merges them into a single narrative and removes miracles, prophecies and genealogies to leave only Jesus's moral teaching, commented verse by verse. Worked on in 1880–1881, it was published in Geneva in 1892–1894.