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  • Published: 27 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780140424638
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $26.99
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Resurrection




A new translation by Tony Briggs of Tolstoy's last major novel

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.

  • Published: 27 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780140424638
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $26.99
Categories:

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About the author

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910.

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