"Resurrection" (1899) tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suff
ering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prison
er in Siberia. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgivenes
s, and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel. An intimate, psychologi
cal tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, "Resurrection" is at the same time a p
anoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth centu
ry, reflecting its author's outrage at the social injustices of the world in whi
ch he lived.
