The Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy
"Resurrection" - the last of Tolstoy's great novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to save a peasant girl captured in Siberia from the suffering caused by youth philiculture. The novel is dominated by Tolstoy's vision of liberation, which is achieved through loving forgiveness and condemnation of violence. A sincere, psychological story of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is a panoramic depiction of social life in Russia in the late nineteenth century and reflects its author's anger at the social injustice of the world in which he lives.
