Publisher |
Murine Publications LLC |
Publication Year |
2016 |
ISBN-13 |
9781940849454 |
ISBN-10 |
9781940849454 |
Binding |
Hardcover |
Number of Pages |
476 Pages |
Language |
(English) |
Dimensions (Cms) |
15.2 x 2.7 x 22.9 |
Weight (grms) |
727 |
Framed for murder, the maid, Maslova, is convicted of the crime and sent to Siberia. Nekhlyudov goes to visit her in prison, meets other prisoners, hears their stories, and slowly comes to realize that all around his charmed and golden aristocratic world, yet invisible to it, is a much larger world of oppression, misery and barbarism. Story after story he hears and even sees people chained without cause, beaten without cause, immured in dungeons for life without cause, and a twelve-year-old boy sleeping in a lake of human dung from an overflowing latrine because there is no other place on the prison floor, but clinging in a vain search for love to the leg of the man next to him, until the book achieves the bizarre intensity of a horrific fever dream
Leo Tolstoy
“LOVE IS LIFE. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
Leo Tolstoy
Murine Publications LLC