Anna Karenina (Oneworld Classics) - Softcover

Leo Tolstoy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184749059X ISBN 13: 9781847490599

Publisher: Oneworld Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Includes photographs, a 10,000-word section on Tolstoy’s life and works, with a longer chapter on Anna Karenina, anecdotes, critical perspectives, adaptations, and spin-offs

 

Considered to be Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, this resonant story scrutinizes fundamental moral and theological questions through the impassioned and tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity, Anna experiences passion that drives her to adultery, flying in the face of the Russian bourgeoisie. In the background of Anna's tale, the aristocrat Konstantin Levin is struggling to reconcile reason with passion, espousing a Christian anarchism that Tolstoy himself believed in. Championed by Dostoevsky and Nabokov, this masterpiece of Russian literature displays a poignant realism and innovative lyricism that makes it one of the most perfect, enduring novels of all time.

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About the Author

Leo Tolstoy, also the author of War and Peace, is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists. April Fitzylon was a scholar, biographer, and translator. She contributed to Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians and produced articles and reviews for newspapers and journals including Encounter, the Literary Review, and the Times Literary Supplement. Kyril Zinovieff is the coauthor of The Companion Guide to St. Petersburg.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oneworld Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184749059X
• ISBN 13: 9781847490599
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 864