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Highlights
- Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society.
- About the Author: Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best-known for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
- 992 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Classics
- Series Name: Vintage Classics
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Book Synopsis
Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall. In this extraordinary novel Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it.Review Quotes
One of the greatest love stories in world literature--Vladimir Nabokov Tolstoy's historical and human sweep is breathtaking. His vision, humanity and his knowledge that love and pain are at the heart of life is the most important of all the profound truths revealed in this great novel--Jonathan Dimbleby In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy got totally inside the mind of a woman who is prepared to lose everything for the sake of man and who is so much in love that she commits suicide. I don't like her as a woman, but I think it is a brilliant portrait, unequalled in literature--Amanda Craig, Independent I've read and re-read this novel and every time I find another layer in the story--Philippa Gregory I first read Anna Karenina 20 years ago when travelling across the Peruvian desert on a long bus journey, and it has stayed with me ever since--Hugh Thomson, Independent Anyone who has read Anna Karenina will be aware of its extraordinary power as an epic psychological tale of a woman who gives up her husband and son for the sake of an affair with a handsome army officer. It has humour but, as with all of Tolstoy's works, it is completely without sentimentality--Mail on Sunday I just love this classic romance about a married mother who succumbs to an unsuitable lover and becomes pregnant by him, which of course results in all sorts of pressures and heartache. The best love story ever told--Kay Burley Probably one of the greatest novelistic treatments of the torments of love--Daily Mail
About the Author
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best-known for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude were English translator of Tolstoy's work, of whom Tolstoy said "Better translators . . . could not be invented."Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x 1.8 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.9 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 992
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Classics
Series Title: Vintage Classics
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Street Date: May 1, 2017
TCIN: 94033279
UPC: 9781784871956
Item Number (DPCI): 247-28-4011
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 1.9 pounds
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