Leo Tolstoy’s career is a reminder that literature that tries too hard to meet the moment tends to be quickly forgotten. ... “Resurrection” (1899), the battle in Tolstoy’s soul was over, ...

First published in 1900, Tolstoy's final large-scale novel has divided critics. ... Resurrection, By Leo Tolstoy. Reviewed, Boyd Tonkin. Friday 04 September 2009 00:00 BST. Comments.

But Resurrection is much richer in felt life and far less monochromatic than "The Kreutzer Sonata," if only because the novel as a form forces Tolstoy to reveal himself. Still, the usual ...

The twenty-first-century boom in new translations of the great nineteenth-century Russian novels has not encompassed one significant work: the last of Leo Tolstoy’s three full-length novels ...

FIFTY years ago, Leo Tolstoy lay dying in the stationmaster’s house at Astapovo, ... Resurrection, Hadji Murad, some of his best plays, and the superb moral tales.

The greatest of all novels is Leo Tolstoy's final novel, Resurrection. Its effect upon a reader is immense and immediate. Even after eight readings of various translations, I continue to feel its ...