Resurrection

Tolstoy's final major novel follows Prince Nekhlyudov, a nobleman serving on a jury who recognizes the defendant as a woman he seduced and abandoned years earlier. Stricken by guilt, he resolves to… Read more

Tolstoy's final major novel follows Prince Nekhlyudov, a nobleman serving on a jury who recognizes the defendant as a woman he seduced and abandoned years earlier. Stricken by guilt, he resolves to follow her to Siberia and seek her forgiveness — a journey that becomes a searing indictment of the Russian legal system, the church, and the moral bankruptcy of the ruling class. Show less