Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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E-newsletter 300 and sixty five days: 2004 Format: Paperback
Language: English ISBN:

9780143035008

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A infamous story surrounding the advent of “Anna Karenina” tells us that Tolstoy started writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up falling in admire along with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to search out a reader of the e book who would no longer skills the the same uncover of emotional upheaval. Anna Karenina is corpulent of most basic and minor characters who exist in their very personal appropriate and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian milieu, but it surely aloof belongs fully to the lady whose name it bears, whose portrait is surely one of many truest ever made by a author. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude Anna Karenina tells of the doomed admire affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and have to suffer the hypocrisies of society. Method in opposition to a mammoth and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel’s seven most basic characters originate a dynamic imbalance, taking part in out the contrasts of city and nation lifestyles and the total adaptations on admire and family happiness. While old versions contain softened the sturdy, and every now and then lifeless, quality of Tolstoy’s writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky contain produced a translation appropriate to his necessary suppose. This award-winning crew’s authoritative edition moreover comprises an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Honest, packed with life, and eminently readable, this Anna Karenina would maybe be the definitive textual verbalize for generations to approach. Regarded as by some to be the finest novel ever written, “Anna Karenina” is Tolstoy’s fundamental tale of admire and adultery enlighten in opposition to the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A well off and refined masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous direction of a admire affair between Anna, a stupendous married lady, and Count Vronsky, a well off military officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves collectively the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a panoramic tapestry of unhurried-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his famed essay on Tolstoy, “We’re to no longer pick “Anna Karenina” as a work of artwork; we’re to select it as part of lifestyles.” The have to-contain Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of surely one of many finest Russian novels ever written, rapidly to be a film tailored by Tom Stoppard and starring Kiera Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, and Emily Watson Described by William Faulkner because the finest novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed admire affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and have to suffer the hypocrisies of society. Method in opposition to a mammoth and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel’s seven most basic characters originate a dynamic imbalance, taking part in out the contrasts of city and nation lifestyles and the total adaptations on admire and family happiness. While old versions contain softened the sturdy, and every now and then lifeless, quality of Tolstoy’s writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky contain produced a translation appropriate to his necessary suppose. This authoritative edition, which got the PEN Translation Prize and was an Oprah Ebook Membership™ different, moreover comprises an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Honest, packed with life, and eminently readable, this Anna Karenina would maybe be the definitive textual verbalize for followers of the film and generations to approach. When resplendent, aristocratic, and married Anna falls head over heels in admire with the dashing Count Vronsky, their affair shocks Russian society, tears her family apart, and leads, inevitably, to tragedy. Count Leo Tolstoy’s yarn legend of passion, infidelity, vengeance, and retribution has held readers spellbound since it was first published in the unhurried 1800s. Method in opposition to the fatal attraction of Anna and Vronsky, unfolding in perfect symmetry, is one more admire legend: of the despair nobleman Constantin Levin and his devoted wife, Kitty. Uncertain regarding the which plot of lifestyles, vastly surprised by suggestions of suicide, Levin’s struggles echo Tolstoy’s personal religious disaster. Stuffed with unforgettable characters, well off in history and social realism, “Anna Karenina” is a masterpiece of world literature, a legend that fires the imagination and touches the coronary heart.

Product Identifiers
ISBN-10 0143035002
ISBN-13 9780143035008
eBay Product ID (ePID) 30785647

Key Petite print
Creator Leo Tolstoi
Number Of Pages 864 pages
Edition Description Deluxe
Series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Format Paperback
E-newsletter Date 2004-05-31
Language English
Creator Penguin Publishing Group
E-newsletter 300 and sixty five days 2004

Extra Petite print
Series Quantity Number Bk. 5
Copyright Date 2000
Licensed Language Russian

Dimensions
Weight 34.3 Ounces19459034]
Top 1.8 In.
Width 5.6 In.
Length 8.4 In.

Purpose Target market
Group Trade
Grade From Twelfth Grade
Grade To up
Age Range 18 – UP

Classification Formula
LCCN 00-043356
LC Classification Number PG3366.A6 2001
Dewey Decimal 891.73/3
Dewey Edition 22

Contributors
Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear

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