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Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness. While previous versions have softened the robust, and sometimes shocking, quality of Tolstoy's writing, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This award-winning team's authoritative edition also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this Anna Karenina will be the definitive text for generations to come.
"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English, and their superb rendering allows us, as perhaps never before, to grasp the palpability of Tolstoy's 'characters, acts, situations.'" (James Wood, The New Yorker)
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- Edition: Reissue
- ISBN-10: 0142000272
- ISBN-13: 9780142000274
- Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Pub date: Dec 01, 2001
- Dimensions: 22 cm x 14 cm x 5 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Leather Bound, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Unbound and Others
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If anyone owns the edition that is in Original Russian Language and says by: L.N. Tolstoi with the following criteria, PLEASE tell me the name of the cover art, or the artist who created it!! I'M DESPERATE!!
Paperback
Edition: Unabridged
ISBN-10: 2877142647
ISBN-13: 97828771426 ... Continue
If anyone owns the edition that is in Original Russian Language and says by: L.N. Tolstoi with the following criteria, PLEASE tell me the name of the cover art, or the artist who created it!! I'M DESPERATE!!
Paperback
Edition: Unabridged
ISBN-10: 2877142647
ISBN-13: 9782877142649
Publisher: Brooking International
Pub date: Jun 01, 1995
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