Resurrection (Translated by Rosemary Edmonds 1966)

✍ Scribed by Leo Tolstoy

• Book ID: 111600414
• Publisher: Penguin Books; Penguin Random House
• Year: 1899
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 386 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780141917085
• ASIN: B002XHNM7G

✦ Synopsis

May 2023 - epub format revised and verified by zardox (no changes to book content).
Genre: Literature
ebook, 615 pages
Paperback, 567 pages
Published 1899
Translated and with an Introduction by: Rosemary Edmonds (1966)
Serving on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder, Prince Nekhlyudov is horrified to discover that the accused is a woman he had once loved, seduced and then abandoned when she was a young servant girl. Racked with guilt at realizing he was the cause of her ruin, he determines to appeal for her release or give up his own way of life and follow her. Conceived on an epic scale, Resurrection portrays a vast panorama of Russian life, taking us from the underworld of prison cells and warders to the palaces of countesses. It is also an angry denunciation of government, the upper classes, the judicial system and the Church, and a highly personal statement of Tolstoy's belief in human redemption. Resurrection was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy.