复活 英文版 Resurrection
列夫.托尔斯泰 Leo Tolstoy
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
Opinions about Tolstoy and his work differ, but on one pointthere surely might be unanimity. A writer of world-widereputation should be at least allowed to know how to spell hisown name. Why should any one insist on spelling it "Tolstoi"(with one, two or three dots over the "i"), when he himselfwrites it "Tolstoy"? The only reason I have ever heard suggestedis, that in England and America such outlandish views areattributed to him, that an outlandish spelling is desirable tomatch those views.
This novel, written in the rough by Tolstoy some years ago andfounded upon an actual occurrence, was completely rewritten byhim during the last year and a half, and all the proceeds havebeen devoted by him to aiding the Doukhobors, a sect who werepersecuted in the Caucasus (especially from 1895 to 1898) forrefusing to learn war. About seven thousand three hundred of themare settled in Canada, and about a hundred of the leaders areexiled to the remote parts of Siberia.
Anything I may receive for my work in translating the book willgo to the same cause. "Prevention is better than cure," and Iwould rather help people to abstain from killing and woundingeach other than devote the money to patch up their wounds afterthe battle.
LOUISE MAUDE