[Pocket Edition] World Literature Masterpieces Library (Volume 4) -- The Resurrection

Author: (Russia) Leo Tolstoy
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
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 issued General High School Chinese Curriculum Standards by the Ministry of Education has designated it as a required for students. Roman Rolland highly praised The Resurrection, calling it "the most 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 is considered "the only writer since the Renaissance who could challenge Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare," and together with Balzac, he is known as the two highest and most brilliant peaks in the realm of realist literature. Every character in Tolstoy's works has their own rich and vivid life. —Oscar Wilde
Tolstoy's works are filled with his own images, and these images are always delicate and meticulous. Whether it is his long novels, short stories, diaries, or letters, we must comprehensively study them to understand their true nature. —Stefan Zweig