Not Tolstoy's best effort, but good enough to read.

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	• Resurrection (The World's Classics) Leo Tolstoy Oxford University Press, USA, 1994 - 528 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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Not Tolstoy's best effort, but good enough to read.

Essentially, the line of the book could be summed up as, "Young aristocrat makes mistake, forgets mistake, remembers mistake, tries to make up for mistake". During the course of this story line, the reader is pounded with the defects of a criminal justice system in which those who are supposed to be guilty are actually innocent and those who sentence them are actually the guilty ones. It isn't entirely convincing as Tolstoy tries to make the case that people who rob are doing it for survival and those who murder must have been drunk or inflamed with passion. The book ends with a poor thesis on what the purpose of life is and five rules for living your life. Not the best of endings, but the book is, for the most part, decent. Not his best work.

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Profound!

Tolstoy at his best, Resurrection digs into the soul and causes the reader to consider society, the world at large, and governments in perhaps a new light. It addresses some of mankind's most gripping problems and questions, and also entertains via a well crafted story. A wonderful, unforgetable book and first rate piece of literature that will leave a mark on you, among the very best I've read.

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One of Tolstoy's best, but not the best.

This book gave me a new perspective at looking at society. After reading this book the wrongs and should-be-rights of my society hit me on the back of the head. Though this is not the best of Tolstoy's work, it should be read by all who love literature and all who want something to stimulate the psyche with something new.

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Tolstoy's best.

While I love Tolstoy's work, I think that this novel is highly underrated, and is Tolstoy's best novel out of them all. It's a story that could easily be compared with Tolstoy's own personal life, and coming to grips with humility. This story is truly inspiring, and one that will make you rethink the position of governments worldwide, property ownership, and the Christian gospels.

A Great Work by a Mature Master

When I read Tolstoy?s Anna Karenina years ago, I felt that it should surely be the greatest novel ever written. In my mind, it is still a candidate for that declaration.

But having spent some time studying the life of Tolstoy and having recently read his later work, Resurrection, I like Resurrection even better. To me, it is an even greater accomplishment. Resurrection has all the vibrancy and brilliance of language, detail and characterization as does the earlier works for which Tolstoy is famous. It doesn?t drop off a scintilla in terms for the display of raw literary talent. But it also incorporates some of the deep philosophical, political and social issues that Tolstoy had been struggling with for the previous two decades.

In the end, I tired of Anna Karenina for the exact same reason that caused Tolstoy himself to scorn it. It is not about deep issues, but only the story of a woman of nobility who commits adultery, even if the story is told with a brilliance that no other writer has managed to emulate. Resurrection captures you with its rich story and social panorama, but it goes beyond that. It continues to reverberate in your mind weeks later because of the philosophical and social themes it so successfully weaves into the narrative. In this respect, Resurrection seems comparable to Ayn Rand?s Atlas Shrugged, another literary classic known for the ideas it conveys as much as the story that it tells. Though, having made the comparison, it should be added that Tolstoy is, as always, the greater of the writers.

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Resurrection, the last of Tolstoy's major novels, tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem himself for the suffering his youthful philandering caused a peasant girl. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting Tolstoy's outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived.

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