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Vorst Dmitri Nechljoedow wordt als jurylid opgeroepen bij een strafzaak. Een der verdachten is een prostituée, Katerina Maslowa, 27 jaar oud. Tijdens de zitting herkent Nechljoedow haar. Zeven jaar geleden, ze was toen dienstmeisje bij zijn tantes, heeft hij haar zwanger gemaakt en honderd roebel gegeven. Hij wordt door berouw overmand en vecht voor haar vrijspraak.
486 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 30, 2021
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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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January 15, 2025
I hesitated for a long time between three and four stars. The book reads smoothly, Tolstoy knows how to create momentum and tension in the story. The dialogues are also well written. But in terms of development I found it a bit disappointing: a main character who converts to the good, and then does exactly what you expect. A great many people are introduced, with long descriptions of their personal histories. The book also reads like a pamphlet, written to expose the existing order. That takes the pace out of the writing.
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