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Resurrection (Classics) (Paperback)

by Leo Tolstoy (Author), Rosemary Edmonds (Introduction, Translator)
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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Impression edition (5 Feb 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140441840
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140441840
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 134,663 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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.

About the Author
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), the Russian prose writer, is chiefly remembered for his novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Rosemary Edmonds was bron in London and studied English, Russian, French, Italian and Old Church Slavonic at various universities. She was translator for General de Gaulle in the Second World War. She has edited many Penguin Classics, including War and Peace and Turgenev's Fathers and Sons.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Masterwork., 21 Aug 2000
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The 'Ressurection' came into my hands after having read virtually everything else by Tolstoy, and for it's lack of reputation caught me entirely by surprise. Here we find Tolstoy the great storyteller, a genius whose strong personality sometimes prevents him from understanding his characters. It is a great paradox that his would be the great literary heroines, like Anna Karenina, when it is in the characterization of women that a careful reader can notice a lack of intimate knowledge and real understanding. Yet in the background there is always a man, crucified between moral corectness and a hipocrisical society, each of those men a part of Tolstoy himself, and it is exactly in the deep, cruelly exact self-portrait that his mastery is undisputed. 'Ressurection' features a female character strong enough to carry a novel; yet it is the feeble male character that occupies our attention as we watch him shed the protection offered by the norms of his class, to search for redemption, or resurrection. It is a novel hard and unfrilled, yet there is something in its shattering sincerity, in the drama of its gestures, that makes it truly great. Together with 'War and Peace' and a short novel, 'Father Sergei', it is to be considered the pinnacle of Tolstoy's opus.
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4.0 out of 5 stars absorbing, 9 April 2000
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A beautifully decriptive story set in Russia 100 years ago. Even the briefest characters are given personality and life, and also much humour. It took me several weeks to read the book, but it is so well written I found myself remembering exactly where i left the story, and never had to re-read any of it. Probably the first book I have ever read in which I can remember the story from start to finish. A proper 'old fashioned' tale, but with many thoughts and ideas which are equally relevant in todays society.
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5.0 out of 5 stars That Which Must First Die To Resurrect, 30 Mar 2009
Resurrection is the story of how a man who raped a girl attempts to redeem himself by trying to save her from gaol when she is convicted of murder many years after. To the consternation of friends, family and society he gave up (well, most of) his privileged life to atone for his crime. Through it Tolstoy decimates the russian establishment (church, state, judiciary, aristocracy) and while at it also one of our most cherished notions - a landowner's right to own land.

The writing is superb and beautiful (it's Tolstoy), preachy and petulant and yet never loses sympathy for the hearts and minds of those he is trying to influence. Tolstoy is here close to the end of his long life and as one who has witnessed vast injustice feels, perhaps righteously so, that he had earned the right to call the powers that be to account. And he does it ruthlessly.

The political, social and economic conditions that led to such exploitation and disenfranchisement of the russian poor are still with us perhaps glaringly more so in the free markets dogma where earning a buck all too often trumps human dignity. They don't write books like this any more. They would not translate well on film.
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4.0 out of 5 stars almost perfect..
incredible, detailed, desciptive, impassioned book by ol' leo here. I wanted it to go on forever. such depth. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Nj Peel

5.0 out of 5 stars Resurrection
I'm only half way through this but I am just so surprised by it that I thought I'd write something.

It's true that in Resurrection, the novelist's over-riding intent... Read more
Published 15 months ago by J. Pierson

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the greatest novels ever written
A superb vision of life in 19th-century Russia, it exposes the hypocrisies of state, property and law in an unrivalled manner. Brilliantly written.
Published 15 months ago by William Podmore

4.0 out of 5 stars A beautifully descriptive and yet somehow confused book
This book is an epic story written towards the end of Tolstoy's life. Although the tale of two ex lovers going through a spiritual renewal together is moving, Tolstoy (whose self... Read more
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