 |
|
|
|
|
Resurrection |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 608 pages | ISBN 9780140424638 | 27 Oct 2009 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Two irresistibly intimate masterworks by one of Russia’s greatest writers
Published here in a marvelous new translation, Resurrection tells the story of a Russian nobleman who comes face to face with the sins of his past. When Prince Nekhlyudov serves on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder, he is horrified to discover that the accused is a woman he had once seduced and abandoned. His guilt at the central role he played in her ruin soon leads him on a quest for forgiveness as he follows her into the prisons of Siberia. Conceived on an epic scale, this novel is both a trenchant denunciation of government, aristocracy, the judicial system, and the Church as well as a highly personal statement of Tolstoy’s belief in human redemption and spiritual development.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Download the Penguin App for iPhones and get exclusive excerpts and access to the blog, podcast and more. Click here for information.
|
|
|
|
