Resurrection
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A searing indictment of moral hypocrisy and institutional corruption, Leo Tolstoy's final novel Resurrection stands as one of the most powerful works of Russian literature ever written. The novel chronicles the spiritual and moral awakening of Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman who, sitting on a jury, recognises the accused — a young woman named Katyusha Maslova — as someone whose life he himself destroyed years earlier through seduction and abandonment. Consumed by guilt and a desperate need for atonement, he follows her into the brutal depths of the Siberian penal system, determined to secure her freedom and redemption at any cost. Tolstoy wields his narrative with the unflinching moral authority that defined his later years, using Nekhlyudov's harrowing journey to savage the Russian aristocracy, the Orthodox Church, and the state's judicial apparatus with equal ferocity. Written after his own dramatic spiritual conversion, Tolstoy suffuses Resurrection with his doctrine of Christian anarchism, arguing that true moral renewal demands a complete rejection of societal privilege and institutional power. The result is a novel of immense emotional and philosophical weight — one that leaves the reader questioning not only its characters' capacity for redemption, but their own.
Author: Tolstoy
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A searing indictment of moral hypocrisy and institutional corruption, Leo Tolstoy's final novel Resurrection stands as one of the most powerful works of Russian literature ever written. The novel chronicles the spiritual and moral awakening of Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman who, sitting on a jury, recognises the accused — a young woman named Katyusha Maslova — as someone whose life he himself destroyed years earlier through seduction and abandonment. Consumed by guilt and a desperate need for atonement, he follows her into the brutal depths of the Siberian penal system, determined to secure her freedom and redemption at any cost. Tolstoy wields his narrative with the unflinching moral authority that defined his later years, using Nekhlyudov's harrowing journey to savage the Russian aristocracy, the Orthodox Church, and the state's judicial apparatus with equal ferocity. Written after his own dramatic spiritual conversion, Tolstoy suffuses Resurrection with his doctrine of Christian anarchism, arguing that true moral renewal demands a complete rejection of societal privilege and institutional power. The result is a novel of immense emotional and philosophical weight — one that leaves the reader questioning not only its characters' capacity for redemption, but their own.