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Fiction · 1899

Resurrection

Leo Tolstoy · translated by Louise Maude

Reading time
about 12.5 h
Length
172,685 words · 650 pages
Structure
129 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English (translated from Russian)
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Epigraph
  2. Translator’s Preface
  3. Chapter I — Maslova in Prison
  4. Chapter II — Maslova’s Early Life
  5. Chapter III — Nekhludoff
  6. Chapter IV — Missy
  7. Chapter V — The Jurymen
  8. Chapter VI — The Judges
  9. Chapter VII — The Officials of the Court
  10. Chapter VIII — Swearing in the Jury
  11. Chapter IX — The Trial—The Prisoners Questioned
  12. Chapter X — The Trial—The Indictment
  13. Chapter XI — The Trial—Maslova Cross-Examined
  14. Chapter XII — Twelve Years Before
  15. Chapter XIII — Life in the Army
  16. Chapter XIV — The Second Meeting with Maslova
  17. Chapter XV — The Early Mass
  18. Chapter XVI — The First Step
  19. Chapter XVII — Nekhludoff and Katusha
  20. Chapter XVIII — Afterwards
  21. Chapter XIX — The Trial—Resumption
  22. Chapter XX — The Trial—The Medical Report
  23. Chapter XXI — The Trial—The Prosecutor and the Advocates
  24. Chapter XXII — The Trial—The Summing Up
  25. Chapter XXIII — The Trial—The Verdict
  26. Chapter XXIV — The Trial—The Sentence
  27. Chapter XXV — Nekhludoff Consults an Advocate
  28. Chapter XXVI — The House of Korchagin
  29. Chapter XXVII — Missy’s Mother
  30. Chapter XXVIII — The Awakening
  31. Chapter XXIX — Maslova in Prison
  32. Chapter XXX — The Cell
  33. Chapter XXXI — The Prisoners
  34. Chapter XXXII — A Prison Quarrel
  35. Chapter XXXIII — The Leaven at Work—Nekhludoff’s Domestic Changes
  36. Chapter XXXIV — The Absurdity of Law—Reflections of a Juryman
  37. Chapter XXXV — The Procureur—Nekhludoff Refuses to Serve
  38. Chapter XXXVI — Nekhludoff Endeavours to Visit Maslova
  39. Chapter XXXVII — Maslova Recalls the Past
  40. Chapter XXXVIII — Sunday in Prison—Preparing for Mass
  41. Chapter XXXIX — The Prison Church—Blind Leaders of the Blind
  42. Chapter XL — The Husks of Religion
  43. Chapter XLI — Visiting Day—The Men’s Ward
  44. Chapter XLII — Visiting Day—The Women’s Ward
  45. Chapter XLIII — Nekhludoff Visits Maslova
  46. Chapter XLIV — Maslova’s View of Life
  47. Chapter XLV — Fanarin, the Advocate—The Petition
  48. Chapter XLVI — A Prison Flogging
  49. Chapter XLVII — Nekhludoff Again Visits Maslova
  50. Chapter XLVIII — Maslova Refuses to Marry
  51. Chapter XLIX — Vera Doukhova
  52. Chapter L — The Vice-Governor of the Prison
  53. Chapter LI — The Cells
  54. Chapter LII — No. 21
  55. Chapter LIII — Victims of Government
  56. Chapter LIV — Prisoners and Friends
  57. Chapter LV — Vera Doukhova Explains
  58. Chapter LVI — Nekhludoff and the Prisoners
  59. Chapter LVII — The Vice-Governor’s “At-Home”
  60. Chapter LVIII — The Vice-Governor Suspicious
  61. Chapter LIX — Nekhludoff’s Third Interview with Maslova in Prison
  62. Book II
  63. Chapter I — Property in Land
  64. Chapter II — Efforts at Land Restoration
  65. Chapter III — Old Associations
  66. Chapter IV — The Peasants’ Lot
  67. Chapter V — Maslova’s Aunt
  68. Chapter VI — Reflections of a Landlord
  69. Chapter VII — The Disinherited
  70. Chapter VIII — God’s Peace in the Heart
  71. Chapter IX — The Land Settlement
  72. Chapter X — Nekhludoff Returns to Town
  73. Chapter XI — An Advocate’s Views on Judges and Prosecutors
  74. Chapter XII — Why the Peasants Flock to Town
  75. Chapter XIII — Nurse Maslova
  76. Chapter XIV — An Aristocratic Circle
  77. Chapter XV — An Average Statesman
  78. Chapter XVI — An Up-to-Date Senator
  79. Chapter XVII — Countess Katerina Ivanovna’s Dinner Party
  80. Chapter XVIII — Officialdom
  81. Chapter XIX — An Old General of Repute
  82. Chapter XX — Maslova’s Appeal
  83. Chapter XXI — The Appeal Dismissed
  84. Chapter XXII — An Old Friend
  85. Chapter XXIII — The Public Prosecutor
  86. Chapter XXIV — Mariette Tempts Nekhludoff
  87. Chapter XXV — Lydia Shoustova’s Home
  88. Chapter XXVI — Lydia’s Aunt
  89. Chapter XXVII — The State Church and the People
  90. Chapter XXVIII — The Meaning of Mariette’s Attraction
  91. Chapter XXIX — For Her Sake and for God’s
  92. Chapter XXX — The Astonishing Institution Called Criminal Law
  93. Chapter XXXI — Nekhludoff’s Sister and Her Husband
  94. Chapter XXXII — Nekhludoff’s Anarchism
  95. Chapter XXXIII — The Aim of the Law
  96. Chapter XXXIV — The Prisoners Start for Siberia
  97. Chapter XXXV — Not Men but Strange and Terrible Creatures?
  98. Chapter XXXVI — The Tender Mercies of the Lord
  99. Chapter XXXVII — Spilled Like Water on the Ground
  100. Chapter XXXVIII — The Convict Train
  101. Chapter XXXIX — Brother and Sister
  102. Chapter XL — The Fundamental Law of Human Life
  103. Chapter XLI — Taras’s Story
  104. Chapter XLII — Le Vrai Grand Monde
  105. Book III
  106. Chapter I — Maslova Makes New Friends
  107. Chapter II — An Incident of the March
  108. Chapter III — Mary Pavlovna
  109. Chapter IV — Simonson
  110. Chapter V — The Political Prisoners
  111. Chapter VI — Kryltzoff’s Story
  112. Chapter VII — Nekhludoff Seeks an Interview with Maslova
  113. Chapter VIII — Nekhludoff and the Officer
  114. Chapter IX — The Political Prisoners
  115. Chapter X — Makar Devkin
  116. Chapter XI — Maslova and Her Companions
  117. Chapter XII — Nabatoff and Markel
  118. Chapter XIII — Love Affairs of the Exiles
  119. Chapter XIV — Conversations in Prison
  120. Chapter XV — Novodvoroff
  121. Chapter XVI — Simonson Speaks to Nekhludoff
  122. Chapter XVII — “I Have Nothing More to Say.”
  123. Chapter XVIII — Neveroff’s Fate
  124. Chapter XIX — Why Is It Done?
  125. Chapter XX — The Journey Resumed
  126. Chapter XXI — “Just a Worthless Tramp.”
  127. Chapter XXII — Nekhludoff Sees the General
  128. Chapter XXIII — The Sentence Commuted
  129. Chapter XXIV — The General’s Household
  130. Chapter XXV — Maslova’s Decision
  131. Chapter XXVI — The English Visitor
  132. Chapter XXVII — Kryltzoff at Rest
  133. Chapter XXVIII — A New Life Dawns for Nekhludoff

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Leo Tolstoy

1828–1910 · Victorian

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, his family’s estate south of Moscow, served in the Caucasus and at Sevastopol, and between 1863 and 1877 wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina. A spiritual crisis after Anna Karenina turned him to religious and moral writing and to the doctrines of non-violence and simplicity that made him, by the end of his life, a world figure; the late fiction includes The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Kreutzer Sonata and Resurrection. He died at the railway station of Astapovo after leaving home at eighty-two.

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