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Title: Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude ISBN: 0-19-283642-0 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book by a great man
Comment: This was Tolstoy's last novel written intermittently over a period of several years. This is like the "last great novel" written by him and that is easy to make out. The story is based upon his own experiences to a certain extent and that is what makes this novel interesting. Apart from projecting the status and background of a prostitute, this book delves into the mind of the culprit(Prince),who once was the lover of this young girl working at his house but then he gives in to social pressure and rejects her following which the pregnant girl is forced into her profession. When I try to compare this book with his other books like Anna Karenina, I feel that I shouldn't because they are written at different planes. This novel is unique in the sense that it is more autobiographical than any other. I liked Karenina more than this but that doesn't mean you shouldn't read this one.
-Proma Ray
Rating: 5
Summary: A look into a great man's mind
Comment: This was Tolstoy's last novel written intermittently over a period of several years. This is like the "last great novel" written by him and that is easy to make out. The story is based upon his own experiences to a certain extent and that is what makes this novel interesting. Apart from projecting the status and background of a prostitute, this book delves into the mind of the culprit(Prince),who once was the lover of this young girl working at his house but then he gives in to social pressure and rejects her following which the pregnant girl is forced into her profession. When I try to compare this book with his other books like Anna Karenina, I feel that I shouldn't because the they are written at different planes. This novel is unique in the sense that it is more autobiographical than any other. I liked Karenina more than this but that doesn't mean you shouldn't read this one.
-Proma Ray
Rating: 5
Summary: A work of true genius
Comment: This is the best translation, and the only to capture the exquisite beauty of the first paragraph, one of the greatest ever put down.
"No matter that men in their hundreds of thousands disfigured the land on which they swarmed, paved the ground with stones so that no green thing could grow, filled the air with fumes of coal and gas, lopped back all the trees, and drove away every animal and every bird: spring was still spring, even in the town. The sun shone warmly, the grass came to life again and showed itself wherever it was not scraped away, between the paving stones as well as on the lawns in the boulevards; the birches, the wild cherries, and the poplars unfolded their sticky and fragrant leaves, the swelling buds were bursting on the lime trees; the jackdaws, the sparrows, and the pigeons were happy and busy over their nests, and the flies, warmed by the sunshine, hummed gaily along the walls. Plants, birds, insects, and children rejoiced. But men, adult men, never ceased to cheat and harass their fellows and themselves. What men considered sacred and important was not the spring morning, not the beauty of God's world given for the enjoyment of all creatures, not the beauty which inclines the heart to peace and love and concord. What men considered sacred and important were their own devices for wielding power over their fellow men."
Tolstoy is a moralist of the highest order and this novel comes after his spiritual conversion, when his morality has reached the highest pitch of maturity. The ever-present irony in this book, where the behavior of men is continuously contrasted with what is good and right, is delightful and sobering at the same time. Compared to Resurrection, Tolstoy's more famous novels are vain and empty exercises in futility. A must read.
Also recommended: The Death of Ivan Illych and other stories, also by Tolstoy.
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Title: Confession by Leo Tolstoy, David Patterson ISBN: 0393314758 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy, Martin Green ISBN: 0803294042 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Divine and Human by Leo Tolstoy, Peter Sekirin ISBN: 0310223679 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Gospel in Brief by Leo Tolstoy, Isabel Hapgood, F. A., III Flowers, Luisa Cesana ISBN: 0803294328 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $8.94 |
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Title: Where Love Is, There God Is Also by Leo Tolstoy, Lawrence Jordan, Leo Toldyoy ISBN: 0800717813 Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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