Resurrection: A Novel

graf Leo Tolstoy

G.N. Morang, 1900 - 519 pages

Contents

• Máslovas Early Life: 5
• III: 10
• Nekhlúdoff Missy: 15
• The Jurymen: 18
• The Judges: 21
• The Officials of the Court: 25
• Swearing in the Jury: 28
• The TrialThe Prisoners Questioned: 31
• The TrialThe Indictment: 35
• The TrialMáslova Crossexamined: 38
• Twelve Years Before: 44
• Life in the Army: 49
• The Second Meeting with Máslova: 53
• The Early Mass: 57
• The First Step: 62
• XVII: 65
• Nekhlúdoff and Katusha Afterwards: 68
• The TrialResumption: 71
• The TrialThe Medical Report PAGE: 74
• I: 76
• The TrialThe Prosecutor and the Advocates: 78
• The TrialThe Summing: 83
• The TrialThe Verdict: 86
• The TrialThe Sentence: 94
• Nekhlúdoff Consults an Advocate: 97
• The House of Korchágin: 99
• Missys Mother: 104
• The Awakening 94: 109
• CHAPTER PAGE XXIX Máslova in Prison: 115
• The Cell: 119
• The Prisoners: 122
• A Prison Quarrel: 125
• The Leaven at WorkNekhlúdoffs Do mestic Changes: 129
• The Absurdity of LawReflections of a Juryman: 133
• The ProcureurNekhlúdoff Refuses to Serve: 138
• Nekhlúdoff Endeavours to Visit Máslova: 141
• Máslova Recalls the Past: 144
• Sunday in PrisonPreparing for Mass: 148
• The Prison ChurchBlind Leaders of the Blind: 151
• The Husks of Religion: 155
• Visiting DayThe Mens Ward: 158
• Visiting DayThe Womens Ward: 163
• Nekhlúdoff Visits Máslova: 166
• Máslovas View of Life: 172
• Fanárin the AdvocateThe Petition: 175
• A Prison Flogging: 181
• Véra Doúkhova: 191
• The ViceGovernor of the Prison: 194
• The Cells: 198
• No 21: 201
• Victims of Government: 204
• Prisoners and Friends: 207
• Véra Doúkhova Explains: 210
• Nekhlúdoff and the Prisoners: 213
• The ViceGovernors AtHome: 216
• The ViceGovernor Suspicious: 220
• Nekhlúdoffs Third Interview with Máslova in Prison: 223
• BOOK II: 227
• Property in Land: 229
• Efforts at Land Restoration: 235
• CHAPTER PAGE III Old Associations: 239
• The Peasants Lot: 242
• Máslovas Aunt: 246
• Reflections of a Landlord: 250
• The Disinherited: 256
• Gods Peace in the Heart: 260
• The Land Settlement: 263
• Nekhlúdoff Returns to Town: 269
• An Advocates View on Judges and Prosecutors: 274
• Why the Peasants Flock to Town: 277
• Nurse Máslova: 280
• An Aristocratic Circle: 286
• An Average Statesman: 292
• An Uptodate Senator: 297
• Countess Katerina Ivánovnas Dinner Party: 301
• Officialdom: 304
• An Old General of Repute: 308
• Máslovas Appeal: 314
• The Appeal Dismissed: 318
• An Old Friend: 322
• The Public Prosecutor: 325
• Mariette Tempts Nekhlúdoff: 329
• Lydia Shoústovas Home: 336
• Lydias Aunt: 341
• The State Charch and the People: 343
• The Meaning of Mariettes Attraction: 349
• For Her Sake and for Gods: 353
• The Astonishing Institution Called Criminal Law: 359
• Nekhlúdoffs Sister and Her Husband: 364
• Nekhlúdoffs Anarchism: 367
• The Aim of the Law: 372
• The Prisoners Start for Siberia: 376
• Not Men but Strange and Terrible Crea tures?: 381
• The Tender Mercies of the Lord: 385
• Spilled Like Water on the Ground: 390
• The Convict Train: 395
• Brother and Sister: 399
• The Fundamental Law of Human Life: 404
• Taráss Story: 408
• Le Vrai Grand Monde: 414
• BOOK III: 419
• CHAPTER PAGE I Máslova Makes New Friends: 421
• An Incident of the March: 424
• Mary Pávlovna: 427
• Simonson: 430
• The Political Prisoners: 433
• Kryltzóffs Story: 437
• Nekhlúdoff Seeks an Interview with Máslova: 441
• Nekhlúdoff and the Officer: 444
• The Political Prisoners: 448
• Makár Dévkin: 451
• Máslova and Her Companions: 453
• Nabátoff and Márkel: 457
• Love Affairs of the Exiles: 462
• Conversations in Prison: 465
• Novodvóroff: 468
• Simonson Speaks to Nekhlúdoff: 470
• I Have Nothing More to Say 99: 474
• Nevéroffs Fate: 477
• Why Is It Done? 99: 480
• The Journey Resumed: 485
• Just a Worthless Tramp: 489
• Nekhlúdoff Sees the General: 492
• The Sentence Commuted: 497
• The Generals Household: 500
• Máslovas Decision: 505
• The English Visitor: 509
• Kryltzóff at Rest: 511
• A New Life Dawns for Nekhlúdoff: 514

Popular passages

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Resurrection: A Novel
• Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
• Publisher: G.N. Morang, 1900
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: Feb 8, 2008
• Length: 519 pages