Resurrection

Author: (Russian) Leo Tolstoy
Translator: Li Huifan
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Publishing Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The Resurrection is one of the greatest novels in the world and one of the most influential foreign literary works in China. It has been translated into multiple languages and remains a bestseller to this day. The newly promulgated General High School Chinese Curriculum Standards by the Ministry of Education has designated it as a compulsory extracurricular reading for students. Roman Rolland highly esteemed The Resurrection, calling it a "beautiful poem praising human compassion." Tolstoy was the most outstanding critical realist writer of 19th-century Russia and widely recognized as one of the greatest novelists in the world. He was described as "the only writer since the Renaissance who could challenge Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare," and together with Balzac, he was hailed as "two of the highest and most brilliant peaks in realist literature."