Leo Tolstoy
The Resurrection
Paperback
(Empire Books Jan. 19, 2012)
The last novel of Tolstoy’s illustrious career, The Resurrection concerns the moral bankruptcy of organized religion and the inequitable enforcement of society’s laws. It tells the story of Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman who visits a former lover in a Siberian prison. Finding the prison and its methods senseless and barbaric, Nekhlyudov comes to realize that social order is underwritten by unimaginable horror and oppression.
- ISBN
- 161949292X / 9781619492929
- Pages
- 312
- Weight
- 27.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.0 x 0.7
in.