Resurrection (Oxford World's Classics)
Contributors: Richard F. Gustafson (Introduction); Louise Maude (Translator)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780192836427
First sentence: THOUGH hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded together: paving the ground with stones, scraping away every vestige of vegetation, cutting down the trees, turning away bird and beasts, filling the air with the smoke of naphtha and coal-still spring was spring, even in the town.