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Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Nekhludoff recognizes in a prostitute accused of murder the peasant woman Katusha Maslova, whom he had seduced ten years earlier, causing her ruin. As the prince faces the consequences of his actions, he decides to give up his life of wealth and luxury to devote himself to rescuing Katusha, even if it means following her into exile in Siberia. Oppressed by guilt, he works to save the woman and, with her, his own soul. Resurrection, Tolstoy's last great novel, is inspired by an actual judicial affair, which is above all a reflection on the inevitability of evil, on the universal injustice of suffering, to which man can oppose only the prospect of individual redemption. Such as the one Katusha and Nekhludoff will find, each in his own way. Creating a vast panorama of Russian life, from peasants to aristocrats, bureaucrats to convicts, Resurrection reveals Tolstoy's magnificent storytelling powers.
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Table of contents
1Also authored by Leo Tolstoy in Cactus catalogue:
2TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
3BOOK I.
4CHAPTER I. MASLOVA IN PRISON.
5CHAPTER II. MASLOVA’S EARLY LIFE.
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6CHAPTER III. NEKHLUDOFF.
7CHAPTER IV. MISSY.
8CHAPTER V. THE JURYMEN.
9CHAPTER VI. THE JUDGES.
10CHAPTER VII. THE OFFICIALS OF THE COURT.
11CHAPTER VIII. SWEARING IN THE JURY.
12CHAPTER IX. THE TRIAL—THE PRISONERS QUESTIONED.
13CHAPTER X. THE TRIAL—THE INDICTMENT.
14CHAPTER XI. THE TRIAL—MASLOVA CROSS-EXAMINED.
15CHAPTER XII. TWELVE YEARS BEFORE.
16CHAPTER XIII. LIFE IN THE ARMY.
17CHAPTER XIV. THE SECOND MEETING WITH MASLOVA.
18CHAPTER XV. THE EARLY MASS.
19CHAPTER XVI. THE FIRST STEP.
20CHAPTER XVII. NEKHLUDOFF AND KATUSHA.
21CHAPTER XVIII. AFTERWARDS.
22CHAPTER XIX. THE TRIAL—RESUMPTION.
23CHAPTER XX. THE TRIAL—THE MEDICAL REPORT.
24CHAPTER XXI. THE TRIAL—THE PROSECUTOR AND THE ADVOCATES.
25CHAPTER XXII. THE TRIAL—THE SUMMING UP.
26CHAPTER XXIII. THE TRIAL—THE VERDICT.
27CHAPTER XXIV. THE TRIAL—THE SENTENCE.
28CHAPTER XXV. NEKHLUDOFF CONSULTS AN ADVOCATE.
29CHAPTER XXVI. THE HOUSE OF KORCHAGIN.
30CHAPTER XXVII. MISSY’S MOTHER.
31CHAPTER XXVIII. THE AWAKENING.
32CHAPTER XXIX. MASLOVA IN PRISON.
33CHAPTER XXX. THE CELL.
34CHAPTER XXXI. THE PRISONERS.
35CHAPTER XXXII. A PRISON QUARREL.
36CHAPTER XXXIII. THE LEAVEN AT WORK—NEKHLUDOFF’S DOMESTIC CHANGES.
37CHAPTER XXXIV. THE ABSURDITY OF LAW—REFLECTIONS OF A JURYMAN.
38CHAPTER XXXV. THE PROCUREUR—NEKHLUDOFF REFUSES TO SERVE.
39CHAPTER XXXVI. NEKHLUDOFF ENDEAVOURS TO VISIT MASLOVA.
40CHAPTER XXXVII. MASLOVA RECALLS THE PAST.
41CHAPTER XXXVIII. SUNDAY IN PRISON—PREPARING FOR MASS.
42CHAPTER XXXIX. THE PRISON CHURCH—BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND.
43CHAPTER XL. THE HUSKS OF RELIGION.
44CHAPTER XLI. VISITING DAY—THE MEN’S WARD.
45CHAPTER XLII. VISITING DAY—THE WOMEN’S WARD.
46CHAPTER XLIII. NEKHLUDOFF VISITS MASLOVA.
47CHAPTER XLIV. MASLOVA’S VIEW OF LIFE.
48CHAPTER XLV. FANARIN, THE ADVOCATE—THE PETITION.
49CHAPTER XLVI. A PRISON FLOGGING.
50CHAPTER XLVII. NEKHLUDOFF AGAIN VISITS MASLOVA.