Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
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Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Leo Tolstoy
Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. Her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials form the backdrop for a similar quest.
One of the greatest love stories in world literature -- Vladimir Nabokov
Tolstoy's historical and human sweep is breathtakingHis 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 *
Tolstoy's historical and human sweep is breathtakingHis 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 *
Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784871956 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784871958 |
| Title | Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series) |
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| Series | Vintage Classic Russians Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2017-01-05 |
| Number of pages | 992 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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