The Awakening
Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940011978203 (0011978201)
Publish date: November 30th 2010
Publisher: Quality Classics
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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