Resurrection

A nobleman faces the consequences of his youthful wrongdoing when the girl he seduced and abandoned some years earlier is put on trial in a murder case. Initially conceived as a love story, Tolstoy''s last novel, published in 1899, is a dark masterpiece in which the whole of Imperial Russian society is tried and found wanting. Resurrection moves from the salons and country estates of the aristocracy to courtrooms and government offices, brothels and prisons; from Moscow and St Petersburg by road, rail and route march to the penal settlements of Siberia. Its pages are peopled with convicts and gaolers, revolutionaries and religious sectaries, soldiers, labourers and lawyers, peasants, priests and prostitutes. While for Prince Nekhlyudov and Katusha Maslova salvation through love proves problematic, the journey into exile becomes one of self-discovery and spiritual transformation.>

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy Leo
• Assisted by: Andrew Kahn (Introduction), Louise Maude (Translation), Maude Louise (Translation)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 03.07.2025
• EAN: 9781841594330
• ISBN: 978-1-84159-433-0
• No. of pages: 536
• Dimensions: 228 mm x 284 mm x 198 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Russia, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Political, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Psychological, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Siberia, Classic fiction: general and literary