The Awakening by graf Leo Tolstoy

"The Awakening" by Leo Tolstoy is a novel published in 1899. A nobleman serving on a jury recognizes the defendant—a prostitute accused of murder—as a young woman he seduced and abandoned years earlier. Confronting his guilt, he attempts to help her as she faces exile to Siberia. His journey exposes him to a hidden world of injustice, cruelty, and human suffering beneath his privileged existence. The novel critiques Russian society, man-made laws, and institutional hypocrisy while exploring one man's search for redemption. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Download for free

For your e-reader or reading app — Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, Calibre etc.

Other formats & older devices

About this eBook

Author Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Translator Smith, William E.
Title The Awakening
(The Resurrection)
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_(Tolstoy_novel)
Credits E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Diane Monico, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Reading Level Reading ease score: 71.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature
Subject Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Subject Forgiveness -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 17352
Release Date
Last Update Oct 16, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
Downloads 668 downloads in the last 30 days.

Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free!