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War and Peace Volume 1 written by Leo Tolstoy performed by Neville Jason on Audio CD (Unabridged)

War and Peace Volume 1 written by Leo Tolstoy performed by Neville Jason on Audio CD (Unabridged)£79.99

War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed...

The Resurrection (Trans. Louise Maude) written by Leo Tolstoy performed by Simon Vance on CD (Unabridged)

The Resurrection (Trans. Louise Maude) written by Leo Tolstoy performed by Simon Vance on CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9781596441347
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Classic World
Duration:  1010 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Leo Tolstoy
Narrator 1:  Simon Vance

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Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, translated from the Russian. Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before.

As Dmitri faces the consequences of his actions, he decides to give up his life of wealth and luxury to devote himself to rescuing Katyusha, even if it means following her into exile in Siberia.

But can a man truly find redemption by saving another person? Tolstoy's most controversial novel, Resurrection (1899) is a scathing indictment of injustice, corruption and hypocrisy at all levels of society. Creating a vast panorama of Russian life, from peasants to aristocrats, bureaucrats to convicts, it reveals Tolstoy's magnificent storytelling powers.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) spent his youth in wasteful idleness until 1851, when he travelled to the Caucasus and joined the army with his older brother, fighting in the Crimean war. After marrying in 1862, Tolstoy settled down, managing his estates and writing two of his best-known novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommunicated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the small railway station of Astapovo.

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