Resurrection
Author: Tolstoy, Leo
ISBN: 9780140424638
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 27 Aug 2009
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback / softback
A new translation by Tony Briggs of Tolstoy's last major novel
Resurrection (1899) tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting its author's outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived.
ISBN: 9780140424638
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 27 Aug 2009
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback / softback
A new translation by Tony Briggs of Tolstoy's last major novel
Resurrection (1899) tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting its author's outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived.
