COMPLETE CLASSICS UNABRIDGED Leo Tolstoy Read by Neville Jason 1 Chapter 1 8:13 2 Chapter 2 6:48 3 Then Katusha went to live with her aunt in town. 6:40 4 Chapter 3 6:03 5 Nekhludoff made a grimace. 6:45 6 Chapter 4 6:17 7 Chapter 5 5:50 8 Chapter 6 7:25 9 Chapter 7 7:16 10 Chapter 8 7:10 11 Chapter 9 9:08 12 Chapter 10 6:32 13 Chapter 11 7:43 14 The President did not continue at once… 6:54 15 Chapter 12 7:08 16 After this there grew up between Nekhludoff and Katusha… 4:34 17 Chapter 13 9:57 18 Chapter 14 10:11 19 Chapter 15 5:57 20 In the interval between the early and the late mass… 5:36 2 21 Chapter 16 7:17 22 Chapter 17 7:33 23 Chapter 18 6:38 24 Chapter 19 6:12 25 Chapter 20 8:18 26 Chapter 21 7:22 27 The sense of the speech… 5:42 28 Chapter 22 7:52 29 Chapter 23 6:32 30 The third question, concerning Maslova… 6:15 31 The jurymen rang the bell. 6:16 32 Chapter 24 6:59 33 Chapter 25 4:00 34 Chapter 26 4:37 35 ‘Well, have you succeeded in undermining the basis of society?’ 8:22 36 Chapter 27 6:34 37 The broad-chested, muscular, handsome Philip… 6:37 38 Chapter 28 8:18 39 And he clearly recalled to mind that moment… 8:06 40 Chapter 29 8:15 3 41 Chapter 30 7:51 42 Chapter 31 7:33 43 Chapter 32 10:00 44 Chapter 33 7:37 45 On the way to the Law Courts, passing along the same streets… 2:13 46 Chapter 34 4:37 47 The accused himself confessed everything… 7:38 48 Chapter 35 6:46 49 Chapter 36 5:33 50 Chapter 37 9:17 51 Chapter 38 5:32 52 Chapter 39 8:52 53 Chapter 40 6:56 54 Chapter 41 6:32 55 The first apartment behind the entrance doors… 4:56 56 Chapter 42 5:28 57 Chapter 43 3:53 58 A minute later Maslova came out of the side door. 10:44 59 Chapter 44 5:55 60 Chapter 45 8:42 4 61 ’But he spoke so badly that no one could make anything of it…’ 7:28 62 Chapter 46 6:50 63 Chapter 47 6:32 64 Chapter 48 8:21 65 Chapter 49 7:44 66 Chapter 50 9:21 67 Chapter 51 7:45 68 Chapter 52 5:56 69 Chapter 53 5:51 70 Chapter 54 5:52 71 Chapter 55 5:32 72 Chapter 56 5:40 73 Chapter 57 9:20 74 Chapter 58 6:42 75 Chapter 59 10:41 76 Book 2: Chapter 1 7:34 77 Nekhludoff had known all this before… 6:29 78 Chapter 2 9:46 79 Chapter 3 6:23 80 Chapter 4 10:19 5 81 Chapter 5 10:18 82 Chapter 6 7:33 83 This was terrible, and must not go on. 6:41 84 Chapter 7 9:00 85 Chapter 8 9:02 86 Chapter 9 7:28 87 The tall, reasonable man proposed… 7:42 88 Chapter 10 10:38 89 Chapter 11 5:41 90 Chapter 12 5:43 91 Chapter 13 7:28 92 When she returned to the ward… 6:29 93 Chapter 14 6:36 94 At this moment a footman with stockinged legs came in… 6:07 95 Chapter 15 5:55 96 First he went to Mariette’s. 6:28 97 Chapter 16 10:05 98 Chapter 17 8:09 99 Chapter 18 8:21 100 Chapter 19 8:02 6 101 The General expressed neither satisfaction nor dissatisfaction… 8:31 102 Chapter 20 9:18 103 Chapter 21 9:25 104 Chapter 22 6:43 105 Chapter 23 10:01 106 Chapter 24 8:31 107 Countess Katerina Ivanovna noticed… 8:58 108 Chapter 25 10:14 109 Chapter 26 4:34 100 Chapter 27 7:53 111 He remembered the case of the sectarians… 7:38 112 Chapter 28 10:23 113 Chapter 29 6:26 114 When Maslova entered the room… 8:48 115 Chapter 30 5:33 116 The fifth class consisted of persons… 6:47 117 Chapter 31 7:01 118 Chapter 32 6:45 119 ‘The Senate has rejected the appeal.’ 6:55 120 Chapter 33 9:53 7 121 Chapter 34 6:01 122 While this was going on in the prison yard… 6:33 123 Chapter 35 8:35 124 Chapter 36 10:51 125 Chapter 37 6:34 126 The dead man was taken from the cart… 5:07 127 Chapter 38 8:08 128 Chapter 39 7:25 129 ‘Nekhludoff,’ he called out, ‘won’t you join me…’ 6:48 130 Chapter 40 5:44 131 ‘Why, what was I thinking about?’ Nekhludoff asked himself… 5:34 132 Chapter 41 6:37 133 Taras spoke of himself as being unable to utter a word… 9:28 134 Chapter 42 10:18 135 Book 3: Chapter 1 6:50 136 Chapter 2 5:39 137 Chapter 3 6:19 138 Chapter 4 6:49 139 Chapter 5 10:18 140 Chapter 6 5:52 8 141 The first to pass was the Inspector… 6:14 142 Chapter 7 5:49 143 Chapter 8 8:40 144 Chapter 9 5:24 145 Chapter 10 4:30 146 Chapter 11 8:35 147 Chapter 12 7:53 148 The other political prisoner from among the people… 4:51 149 Chapter 13 5:50 150 Chapter 14 5:25 151 Chapter 15 5:23 152 Chapter 16 9:07 153 Chapter 17 6:11 154 Chapter 18 7:17 155 Chapter 19 6:32 156 Ordinary, simple men with a conception of the demands… 5:56 157 Chapter 20 9:00 158 Chapter 21 6:24 159 Chapter 22 10:54 160 Chapter 23 7:55 9 161 Chapter 24 5:34 162 All of them were not only kind and attentive… 7:09 163 Chapter 25 8:18 164 Chapter 26 4:12 165 Chapter 27 6:31 166 Chapter 28 9:03 167 ‘But surely it cannot be so simple,’ thought Nekhludoff… 7:27 Total time: 20:13:55 10 Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) ‘One of the most beautiful poems of human with stones, scraping away every vestige compassion; perhaps the most truthful of vegetation, cutting down the trees, ever written’ is how the French author turning away birds and beasts, and Romain Rolland described Leo Tolstoy’s filling the air with the smoke of naptha Resurrection. Compassion is at the heart of and coal, still spring was spring, even in this remarkable story of a man’s awakening the town. to the results of his actions, and his attempt to make amends. Despite its often grim Here, as in many other ways, with his green and forbidding setting, the work is shot agenda Tolstoy was ahead of his time. He through with optimism and hope; with the was in advance too in the theme of this assurance that despite all humanity’s faults novel: prison reform. Happily many of the and misdeeds, there is always the possibility more obvious instances of the brutality of of the re-birth of natural goodness. prison life have since been eradicated, but This credo, which underlies the narrative despite the general acceptance today that of the story, is vividly announced in the what should be required by society is ‘reform novel’s opening paragraph, with a picture of rather than revenge’, the implementation of vernal regeneration: this maxim remains woefully inadequate. On the question of serfdom, Tolstoy was Though hundreds of thousands had fiercely opposed to the selling of ‘souls’, and done their very best to disfigure the in favour of enabling the peasants to own small piece of land on which they were the land they worked. But his more extreme crowded together, by paving the ground view that no man has the right to own land 11 or property is no more accepted today than lived the same life of drunken dissipation as in his lifetime. The same may be said of his his fellow officers. On his family’s estate at contention that because we are all sinners, Yasna Polyana, he seduced a young peasant we have no right to judge others, a view girl who had a child by him. which would logically lead to the abolition But there could hardly be a more rather than the reform of the legal and dramatic change of character than that penal systems. Frequently Tolstoy expresses which was later to overtake Tolstoy. In views which, although not practicable, open his early forties he suffered a mid-life up a debate which throws light on situations crisis which finally led to his becoming which have been traditionally accepted by vegetarian, celibate, tee-total, anti-clerical society. His depiction of the Russian courts and pacifist. He rejected all forms of worldly and prisons shows the irony of a cruel and pleasure and set himself to live a pure and inhuman system frequently operated by holy life. Determined to embrace poverty, good, even idealistic, people, blinded by he gave away the publishing rights to his usage to the suffering and injustice they earlier books and confined his writing to cause. philosophical and religious works. But The basis of the story of Prince Dmitri having taken up the cause of a religious Nekhludov and Katerina Maslova is taken sect, the Dukhobors, who needed money to from a real-life case, in which a man who emigrate to Canada, Tolstoy put into action had seduced and abandoned a young girl his long-neglected intention of writing the in his youth, many years later found himself story of Resurrection, the entire proceeds of serving on a jury at her trial.