Resurrection - Hardcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1940849454 ISBN 13: 9781940849454

Publisher: Ancient Wisdom Publications, 2016

Synopsis

Framed for murder, the maid, Maslova, is convicted of the crime and sent to Siberia. Nekhlyudov goes to visit her in prison, meets other prisoners, hears their stories, and slowly comes to realize that all around his charmed and golden aristocratic world, yet invisible to it, is a much larger world of oppression, misery and barbarism. Story after story he hears and even sees people chained without cause, beaten without cause, immured in dungeons for life without cause, and a twelve-year-old boy sleeping in a lake of human dung from an overflowing latrine because there is no other place on the prison floor, but clinging in a vain search for love to the leg of the man next to him, until the book achieves the bizarre intensity of a horrific fever dream.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It 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.

About the Author:

Nikolai Tolstoy is a highly recognized and acclaimed historian and biographer. He was the sole beneficiary of his stepfather's will and is one of the trustees of O'Brian's estate.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ancient Wisdom Publications
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1940849454
• ISBN 13: 9781940849454
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 476
• Illustrator: Pasternak Leonid