Resurrection is Tolstoy's last major novel. A nobleman, Nekhlyudov, sits on a jury and recognises the accused woman as someone he wronged years before. Troubled by conscience, he tries to make amends and follows her case through courts, prisons and the long road toward Siberia. Along the way he sees the workings of the law, the church and the social order in Russia. The book joins a personal story of guilt and change with a sharp criticism of injustice, and it reflects the moral and spiritual ideas of Tolstoy's later years.
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One of the most widespread superstitions is that every man has his own special, definite qualities.