Resurrection - Wordsworth Classics
Leo Tolstoy (author), Louise Maude (translator)
Paperback (07 Jul 2014)


Publishers Synopsis

This powerful novel, Tolstoys third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based on a real-life event. Dmitri Nekhlyudov, called to jury service, is astonished to see in the dock, charged with murder, a young woman whom he once seduced, propelling her into prostitution. She is found guilty on a technicality, and he determines to overturn the verdict. This pitches him into a hellish labyrinth of Russian courts, prisons and bureaucracy, in which the author loses no opportunity for satire and bitter criticism of a state system (not confined to that country) of cruelty and injustice. This is Dickens for grown-ups, involving a hundred characters, Crime and Punishment brought forward half a century. With unforgettable set-pieces of sexual passion, conflict and social injustice, Resurrection proceeds from brothel to court-room, stinking cells to offices of state, luxury apartments to filthy life in Siberia. The ultimate crisis of moral responsibility embroils not only the famous author and his hero, but also you and me. Can we help resolve the eternal issues of law and imprisonment?


Book information

ISBN: 9781840227284
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Imprint: Wordsworth Editions
Pub date: 07 Jul 2014
DEWEY: 891.733
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xxiv, 466
Weight: 316g
Height: 198mm
Width: 127mm
Spine width: 27mm