Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who earned fame and global renown for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Writing during the late 19th century, Tolstoy lived during a literary period in which Realism flourished, and today his two novels are...
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Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who earned fame and global renown for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Writing during the late 19th century, Tolstoy lived during a literary period in which Realism flourished, and today his two novels are considered the apex of realist fiction. Tolstoy is also known for his complex and somewhat paradoxical persona, holding both moralistic and ascetic views during the final decades of his life.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781502431806 (1502431807)
ASIN: 1502431807
Publish date: 2014-09-19
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 292
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Religion,
Philosophy,
19th Century,
Russia,
Russian Literature
What moved me the most in this novel is: how true is what Tolstoy says about the judicial system, even in our world of today. And this is not just in France, but all over the world. When I read those sections on judicial errors, imprisonment for lack of official papers, inhuman treatment of prisoner...
A story best written Tolstoy style.
one of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way; said to be kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, apathetic, and so on. people are not like that. we may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel, more often wise than stupid, mo...
one of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way; said to be kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, apathetic, and so on. people are not like that. we may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel, more often wise than stupid, mo...
Even though the book has a cast of about 50 characters, only two are really important. The main character, a prince in the Russian aristocracy, seduced a young servant girl years before. Many years later, he is on a jury that is hearing a murder case against this same woman who has managed to surv...
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