Resurrection: A Novel in Three PartsThe last novel of Tolstoys illustrious career, The Resurrection concerns the moral bankruptcy of organized religion and the inequitable enforcement of societys 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. |
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Introduction page The Chief Characters xvii | |
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Máslova Is Taken from Prison 3 | |
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