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Two irresistibly intimate masterworks by one of Russia’s greatest writers Published here in a marvelous new translation, Resurrection tells the story of a Russian nobleman who comes face to face with the sins of his past. When Prince Nekhlyudov serves on a jury at the trial of a... read more

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THOUGH hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded together: paving the ground with stones, scraping away every vestige of vegetation, cutting down the trees, turning away bird and beasts, filling the air with the smoke of naphtha and coal-still spring was spring, even in the town.
 

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