A nobleman on a jury recognizes the prostitute he once ruined and devotes himself to saving her. Tolstoy's late novel of guilt and social protest.
Books mentioned in Resurrection (1)
Social Statics by Herbert Spencer: “Being himself heir to a large property, he was especially struck by the position taken up by Spencer in Social Statics, that justice forbids private landholding, and with the straightforward resoluteness of his age, had not merely spoken to prove that land could not be looked upon as private…”
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Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “observe how much is conveyed by the moment in Tolstoy's Resurrection when a society woman, conscious that she is aging, reflects.”