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Narrated by:
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Neville Jason
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By:
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Leo Tolstoy
When Prince Dmitri Nekhludov is called for jury duty on a murder case, he little knows how the experience will change his life. Faced with the accused, a prostitute, he recognizes Katusha, the young girl he seduced and abandoned many years before, and realizes his responsibility for the life of degradation she has been forced to lead. His determination to make amends leads him into the darkest reaches of the Tsarist prison system, and to the beginning of his spiritual regeneration.
Based on a true story, Tolstoy’s final novel is a deeply moving and compassionate tale of human frailty and reformation.
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Tolstoy's clear and simple way of expressing these insights are also like having a spiritual awakening yourself. It is no wonder he is considered a master and his work as classics. Like both "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace" I will listen to this novel again as I get as much enjoyment and understanding the second time around with all the great Russian authors.
I also have to say that this narrator/performer is the best I've heard on Audible. I don't know what I did before Audible but with my busy life and the comute to work and getting some sort of workout in everyday, I would be deprived of amazing literature without It! This is definately a must listen.
Amazing wisdom and insight
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Awesome book
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It’s almost as read “by the author”...I feel like I knew the characters personally. The rich writing style of Tolstoy of course made that happen, but a narrator can detract from the story when not read with emotion and diction.
Best Narration I’ve ever heard
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- Tolstoy, Resurrection
While not as big or beautiful as Tolstoy's great, BIG novels (War and Peace, Anna Karenina), there is still something grand and beautiful about 'Resurrection'. The novel is basically a critique of both organized religion and the injustices of criminal law and justice. It tells the story of a noble (Nekhlyudov) who recognizes a woman (Maslova) he ruined in his youth while serving on a jury. Through careless mistakes, institutional inflexibility, and apathy, Maslova eventually is sentenced to live in Siberia.
The novel is the story of Nekhlyudov's journey of abandoning his old life (wealth, property, class) and following Maslova to Siberia. It is a story of Nekhlyudov's search for redemption from his past, his awaking to the reality of how the state and its bureaucracy crushes both the innocent and the poor, and a philosophical examination of how the fundamental's of Christianity are often overlooked by the State (and organized religion) when people lose sight of the very basic idea of loving other people.
While reading the novel I was constantly thinking of Ferguson. I was wondering how Tolstoy would approach the heavy incarceration rates of black Americans. It seems he would write a novel pretty close to the one he wrote in 1899. It is amazing to me how similar our times really are. Social injustice seems to always exist. That is why you can have Dickens, Tolstoy, Orwell, Sinclair, Baldwin, Steinbeck, etc., all writing about similar themes on different continents and in different eras and they all seem to capture the same mood with the same type of power.
Same Mood, The Same Power, Resurrected
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A man’s spiritual journey reflecting that of Tolstoy himself at the end of his life.
Not a romance
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Reading Russian tragedies is less his bag imho, though he did a serviceable job it wasn’t a match made in heaven. Great book though
Great book, narrator good but not for this book
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My third time reading over a period of many years led me to the conclusion: even if Resurrection is not his greatest novel, it is my favorite and it is uniquely beautiful.
One of Tolstoy's less known great novels
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Still, the guilt of Nobility and enlightenment regarding views of peasant slavery makes an interesting backdrop.
good story but heavy on Religion
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Of course, Jason Neville has done a wonderful job!!
If you’ve enjoyed any Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, before, you’ll like this one.
Quick and great!!
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My experience with the lousy Kindle edition makes me wonder how much of any historic novel is authentic in this century's renditions of it, but I have no other reason to doubt this audio edition. I do wish narrators would include footnotes, though, and repeat French phrases in English as an aside. The characters here speak French often, entire paragraphs of it. I understand most of it, but not all unless I can see it in print. We can't even consult a French dictionary without the spelling. It's a difficult language for me to get by sound alone, even though I studied it for 3 years and can read it well. (Just imagine a non-English speaker hearing "ah dunno." What to look for in the dictionary?)
As always, Tolstoy's characters are complex, and I appreciate that they engage in philosophical debates and story-telling a little less than Dostoevsky's. However, denouement consists mostly of reading from the biblical Matthew and attempts to design from it laws we would not want to live by in this century--we'd have all criminals running free! (Was Tolstoy, like Shelley, the "ineffectual angle"?) A few chapters remind us of Tolstoy's actual experiments with peasant farming cooperatives, but these chapters are not very detailed.
I respect the author's unambiguous assertion that armed service + alcohol = crime. Likewise, his treatment of rape (isn't it?) without really mentioning it, and his always surprising responses of other females toward the victims. Think of what he would make of violence today when he would factor in heroin "among the peasantry," automatic weapons, and perversion of two of the world's most prominent religions. (I exempt Hinduism.) And, I turn to Updike for the update.
A must-read with impeccable narration
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