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From: Opera News
Date: 19991001
Author:Smith, Patrick J

HOUSTON

Leo Tolstoy's last novel, Resurrection, reflects the author's societal concerns at the end of his life. A rich Prince, serving on a jury, sees someone with whom he once had a brief affair wrongly condemned to Siberia. Feeling enormous compassion - and disgusted with his useless life - he sells everything and commits himself to saving her, even to marrying her. She, who has become a hardened prostitute, cannot believe his selfless sacrifice, but after he follows her to the frozen wastes of Siberia she recognizes the strength of his "resurrection," though in the final scene she marries ...

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