# The Awakening

_(The Resurrection)_

By Leo Tolstoy, graf.

"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. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Translator: William E. Smith
- Subjects: Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Forgiveness -- Fiction

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