Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series) : Leo Tolstoy
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'One of the greatest love stories in world literature' Vladimir Nabokov
Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But 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, Tolstoy creates a rich and complex masterpiece that has captured the imagination of readers for decades.
'I've read and re-read this novel and every time I find another layer in the story' Philippa Gregory
TRANSLATED BY LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE
VINTAGE CLASSICS RUSSIAN SERIES - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.
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Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But 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, Tolstoy creates a rich and complex masterpiece that has captured the imagination of readers for decades.
'I've read and re-read this novel and every time I find another layer in the story' Philippa Gregory
TRANSLATED BY LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE
VINTAGE CLASSICS RUSSIAN SERIES - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.
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Product details
- Paperback | 992 pages
- 153 x 216 x 41mm | 870g
- 01 May 2017
- Vintage Publishing
- Vintage Classics
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- Reissue
- 1784871958
- 9781784871956
- 11,328
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One of the greatest love stories in world literature
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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 *
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About Leo Tolstoy
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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