The Gospel in Brief

Leo Tolstoy

Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood

27 chapters · about 4 h

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The opening

CHAPTEE I THE SON OF GOD

THE SON OF GOD

Man, the son of God, is powerless in the flesh, and free in the spirit

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The birth of Jesus Christ was thus:

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About this edition

The words
Isabel F. Hapgood's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 5 places
  • Other material that isn't the author's, in 3 places
  • The half-title, read by the OCR as "th €ospd in (grief"
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 4 places
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
  • A preface, foreword or afterword
  • Closing line "THE END"
  • The index
  • The back cover, read by the OCR as garble (8 blocks)
  • The printer's gathering mark at the foot of the page (“3”)
  • The printer's gathering mark at the foot of the page (“4”)
  • The printer's gathering mark at the foot of the page (“s”)
  • The printer's gathering mark at the foot of the page (“9”)
  • The printer's gathering mark at the foot of the page (“13”)
  • The printer's gathering mark at the foot of the page (“14”)
  • A speck in the text block read by the OCR as "O" (OCR page 120, between two paragraphs)