num_pages: 460
description: Leo Nikolayevich, Count Tolstoy 1828-1910, based his last major novel, RESURRECTION upon a real incident. It is the story of the prostitute Ekaterina Maslova, wrongly charged and sentenced for the murder of a client, and Prince Dmitrii Ivanovich Nekhliudov who had long ago abandoned her and their child in his youth and now serves on the jury that condemns her while suffering agonizing pangs of remorse. When Maslova is sentenced to serve four years in a penal colony in Siberia, the Prince follows her and eases her sentence from a criminal to a "political" one. A classic novel of conscience. Tolstoy's ideas on nonviolent resistance were to have a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Bevel.
language: English
title: Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Fiction, Classics, Literary
titlecomplete: Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Fiction, Classics, Literary
characters: Катюша Маслова, Дмитрий Нехлюдов
genres: Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 23400
publisher: Wildside Pr