Resurrection / Leo Tolstoy ; a new translation, with an introduction, by Anthony Briggs.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2009.Description: xxxiv, 520 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780140424638
- 0140424636
- Voskresenie. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | TOLSTOY, LEO | Available | 33111011264351 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
"New translation"--Cover.
Translated from the Russian.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Serving on the jury at a murder trail, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young woman he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces the consequences of his actions, he decides to give up his life of wealth and luxury to devote himself to rescuing Katyusha, even if it means following her into exile in Siberia. But can a man truly find redemption by saving another person? Tolstoy's most controversial novel, Resurrection (1899), is a scathing indictment of injustice, corruption and hypocrisy at all levels of society. Creating a vast panorama of Russian life, from peasants to aristocrats, bureaucrats to convicts, it reveals Tolstoy's magnificent storytelling powers."--Page 4 of cover.