列夫·尼古拉耶維奇·托爾斯泰(ЛевНиколаевич Толстой)(1828～1910) 19世紀末20世紀初俄國最偉大的文學傢，也是世界文學史上最傑齣的作傢之一，他的文學作品在世界文學中占有重要的地位。代錶作有長篇小說《戰爭與和平》、《安娜·卡列尼娜》、《復活》以及自傳體小說三部麯《幼年》《少年》《青年》。其它作品還有《一個地主的早晨》《哥薩剋》《塞瓦斯托波爾故事集》等。他也創作瞭大量童話。他以自己一生的辛勤創作，登上瞭當時歐洲批判現實主義文學的高峰。他還以自己有力的筆觸和卓越的藝術技巧辛勤創作瞭“世界文學中第一流的作品”，因此被列寜稱頌為具有“最清醒的現實主義”的“天纔藝術傢”。

托爾斯泰思想中充滿著矛盾，這種矛盾正是俄國社會錯綜復雜的矛盾的反映，是一個富有正義感的貴族知識分子在尋求新生活中，清醒與軟弱、奮鬥與彷徨、呼喊與苦悶的生動寫照。托爾斯泰的作品縱然其中有反動的和空想的東西，但仍不失為世界進步人類的驕傲，他已被公認是全世界的文學泰鬥。列夫·托爾斯泰被列寜稱為“俄國革命的鏡子”

Two irresistibly intimate masterworks by one of Russia's greatest writers

Published here in a marvelous new translation, Resurrection tells the story of a Russian nobleman who comes face to face with the sins of his past. When Prince Nekhlyudov serves on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder, he is horrified to discover that the accused is a woman he had once seduced and abandoned. His guilt at the central role he played in her ruin soon leads him on a quest for forgiveness as he follows her into the prisons of Siberia. Conceived on an epic scale, this novel is both a trenchant denunciation of government, aristocracy, the judicial system, and the Church as well as a highly personal statement of Tolstoy's belief in human redemption and spiritual development.