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  <title><![CDATA[Resurrection]]></title>
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  <default_description>Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels.  It tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel.  An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting its author's outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived. This edition, which updates a classic translation, has explanatory notes and a substantial introduction based on the most recent scholarship in the field.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Tolstoy in his preachy-crazy-old-man phase.  I admire him deeply as a person, because he was willing to live his convictions, but I think he was wildly misguided by this point in his life.  You get a lot of points for trying hard to do good, but at some level the total train wreck that your ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3023347">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say, one of the main subjects of this book (other than the examination of the human soul), the Russian penal system, doesn't exactly enthrall me. There are some interesting insights and philosophical parts in the book... but overall the main character's actions don't make much sense, just...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43891350">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Apr 04 03:54:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book eons ago and to be honest, back then I just could not make up my mind whether I really liked it or really disliked it. I had a hunch that something obvious doesn’t resonate with my instinctive belief. I couldn’t pinpoint it or maybe I could but I didn’t see enough evidence to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24509136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3759101">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Everyone who enjoys socioeconomic debates, and doesn't mind religious undertones]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 14 13:24:45 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Aug 14 13:24:06 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book.  Very similar to all of Tolstoy's other works (though more condensed).  I can honestly say that this is a  <em>true</em> timeless classic, which is actually unfortunate, given the examination of poverty, greed, vice, and apathy in this book.  If after about halfway through this book you don't fee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3759101">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1954707">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tolstoy is my favorite author, so I don't know why I never read this one before. It's not as famous or considered as great as War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but I absolutely loved it.  It's about a Russian nobleman who rapes a peasant girl, and then finds himself on the jury that is hearing her ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78351049">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 19 14:21:36 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 19 14:25:38 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished this book and I am going to say that it rivals my favorite, &quot;Sister Carrie.&quot;  I am still processing it though and need to give it another read before I declare it my favorite book, but it is great.  The story is good, the philosophy great and eye opening.  I wanted more of an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78351049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54908352">
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  <read_at>Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Esta novela, más que de personajes entrañables, o anécdotas inlovidables parece ser una novela de ideales. No solo de las ideas o filosofía que uno puede tener, sino de lo que uno quisiera ver en el mundo y necesita hacerlo notar a cada paso que da en la historia. <br/>El Tolstoy aquí se dedic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54908352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37630887">
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    <body><![CDATA[Sentimental, moralistic, heavy-handedly didactic pot-boiler,  and the plot is about as relevant to the contemporary American reader as court etiquette, but you can sink right into it, get lost in this wonderfully foreign world. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has been described as preachy in tone and outdated in content and I couldn't disagree more. One of the major themes of this book is the difficulty of living a moral life in a society that makes it difficult to achieve life's satisfactions and remain moral. In exploring this theme, you get ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39872190">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13682325">
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing is beyond top notch.  A beautiful story of redemption that can be applied with or without a religion.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="34192935">
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    <body><![CDATA[Long, long fairly painful book that somehow I struggled through and found hugely rewarding by the end.]]></body>
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    <review id="50713865">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an incredible depiction of life in late 19th century Russia, from all its angles. Tolstoy's ideologies of religion and society are rather interesting, and are brought out in this novel magnificently. I would recommend this novel to anyone who's ever questioned religion, society, law - govern...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50713865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67035653">
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    <name><![CDATA[Shannon]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's difficult to rate this book because reading it was such a mixed experience.  At times it was so insightful, and at other times it felt like Tolstoy forgot he was writing a novel and viewed his plot mainly as an opportunity to express his political and religious beliefs.  I think I have more tol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67035653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39711413">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kathryn]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I didn't feel growth in myself from the reformation of Neklydov's life than I definately felt it in the suffering and the little joys that he observed and the way Tolstoy explained the actions of his characters and gave a valid &quot;meaning&quot; to what this life is all about. Even if some reli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39711413">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15873160">
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    <name><![CDATA[matt]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Not stellar, like Anna Karenina or some of the short stories.  I haven't read the daunting &quot;War And Peace&quot; yet but maybe in about 10 years or so.<br/><br/>It's easy to get through, the sheer storytelling strength from The Old Master is the real stand-out here.  The pages pretty muc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15873160">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11532740">
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Resurrection&quot;, little known outside of Russia (my library copy had exactly two dates stamped in the front--1966 and 1986), is the work of a mature and, it could be argued, fanatical Tolstoy. He harshly criticizes the ineffective rigidity of Russian Orthodox tradition and the super-emotion...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11532740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8050304">
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    <body><![CDATA[I find it very interesting how the reader has to bear with the protagonist as he doggedly tries to make ammends for his mistakes in life by trying to improve life for the peasants on his lands, and for the unfortunate woman whose life he feels responsible for.  These aspects of the story become quit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8050304">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure what to make of this book.Tolstoy is a beautiful writer and the opening paragraph is one of the most well constructed evocative paragraphs I've ever read. Here's my problem; this book is all about morality and redemption and he just gets annoyingly preachy at times, especially towards t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5347492">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Anna Karenina, but do not like War and Peace, so this could have gone either way for me.  I had heard very little about Resurrection prior to reading it and was pleasantly surprised!  I LOVE the plot of a man raping a young woman and then sitting on her jury when she is later tried for murde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40022854">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had never read any Tolstoy before, but there was a lot I enjoyed about this book. The way Tolstoy describes the little pretensions of various members of society is delightful (reminds me of what I enjoy most about Trollope) and since I have a weakness for idealists I loved Simonson. Nekhlyudov is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39648870">more...</a>]]></body>
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