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Resurrection
Black & White Publishing
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Description for Resurrection
Paperback. Editor(s): Gustafson, Richard F. Translator(s): Maude, Louise Shanks. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 362.
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. 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. ... Read more
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. 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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199555765
SKU
V9780199555765
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About Black & White Publishing
Richard F. Gustavson is an eminent Professor of Slavic. He is currently Visiting Professor of Slavic at Harvard as well as Olin Professor of Russian at Barnard College, Columbia.
Reviews for Resurrection
Tolstoy magisterially condemns society's social inequities by holding a mirror up to its flawed face; gripping and sombre.
The Observer
The Observer