Anna Karenina - Softcover

Leo Tolstoy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451515404 ISBN 13: 9780451515407

Publisher: Signet Classics, 1961

Synopsis

A direct and truthful transcript of life in Russia in the early 1800's.

About this title

About the Author:

Count Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University in 1844. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty in the army, serving as a junior officer in the Crimean War before retiring in 1857. In 1862, Tolstoy married Sophie Behrs, a marriage that was to become, for him, bitterly unhappy. His diary, started in 1847, was used for self-study and self-criticism; it served as the source from which he drew much of the material that appeared not only in his great novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), but also in his shorter works. Seeking religious justification for his life, Tolstoy evolved a new Christianity based upon his own interpretation of the Gospels. Yasnaya Polyana became a mecca for his many converts At the age of eighty-two, while away from home, the writer suffered a break down in his health in Astapovo, Riazan, and he died there on November 20, 1910.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 1961
• ISBN 10: 0451515404
• ISBN 13: 9780451515407
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 808