Product Description 'Resurrection is one of the most beautiful poems of human compassion perhaps the most truthful ever written.. I see through its pages those bright eyes of Tolstoy's... "the look that goes straight to the heart", and in each heart sees its God." Romain Rolland From the Back Cover 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.