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Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
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, Pevear and 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..
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Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina, also Anglicised as Anna Karenin, is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical Ruskii Vestnik ("Russian Messenger"). Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment. Therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form. Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered this book his first true novel. The character of Anna was likely inspired, in part, by Maria Hartung (1832-1919), the elder daughter of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Soon after meeting her at dinner, Tolstoy started reading Pushkin's prose and once had a fleeting daydream of "a bare exquisite aristocratic elbow," which proved to be the first intimation of Anna's character. Although most Russian critics panned the novel on its publication as a "trifling romance of high life," Fyodor Dostoevsky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art." His opinion is seconded by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style" and the motif of the moving train, which is subtly introduced in the first chapters (the children playing with a toy train) and inexorably developed in subsequent chapters (Anna's nightmare), thus heralding the novel's majestic finale. According to a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors, published in a book entitled The Top Ten,Anna Karenina is the greatest novel ever written .
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Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
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Anna Karenina
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. .
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Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina “one of the greatest love stories in world literature.” Matthew Arnold claimed it was not so much a work of art as “a piece of life.” Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity.
Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is a beautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy army officer, the elegant Count Vronsky. Desperate to find truth and meaning in her life, she rashly defies the conventions of Russian society and leaves her husband and son to live with her lover. Condemned and ostracized by her peers and prone to fits of jealousy that alienate Vronsky, Anna finds herself unable to escape an increasingly hopeless situation.
Set against this tragic affair is the story of Konstantin Levin, a melancholy landowner whom Tolstoy based largely on himself. While Anna looks for happiness through love, Levin embarks on his own search for spiritual fulfillment through marriage, family, and hard work. Surrounding these two central plot threads are dozens of characters whom Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together, creating a breathtaking tapestry of nineteenth-century Russian society.
From its famous opening sentence—“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”—to its stunningly tragic conclusion, this enduring tale of marriage and adultery plumbs the very depths of the human soul.
Amy Mandelker, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the author of Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel and coeditor of Approaches to Teaching Anna Karenina.
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Anna Karenina (Thrift Edition)
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Anna Karenina
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Thus begins Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece Tolstoy's own spiritual crisis and his search for the meaning of life are deeply felt throughout this powerful tale about the growth and death of love. The touching picture of Anna Aarkadyevna Karenina's slow disintegration has fascinated readers for well over a century. Beautiful and charming, Anna lives in a splendid world of her own making. She smokes, rides horseback, plays tennis, takes opium, practices birth control, and-although she is already married-falls in love with a handsome army officer. Anna's life is played out against a backdrop of dazzling balls and the vastness of the Russian landscape. A magnificent story that shimmers with intelligence and passion, Anna Karenina is one of the most extraordinary novels ever written..
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Anna Karenina (Bramblewood Press Classics)
Anna Karenina is widely accepted as one of the greatest works of realist fiction, and is undoubtedly one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Tolstoy considered this to be his first true novel, and though it was not largely recognized by critics of the time, the literary master Dostoevsky found it to be magnificent. Hardly enough praise can be written for this work, and it remains one of a handful of novels that one truly must read..
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Works of Leo Tolstoy. (50+ Works) Includes Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection and more. Published by MobileReference (mobi)
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Table of Contents List of Works by Genre and Title
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
List of Works in Chronological Order
Leo Tolstoy Biography Novels :: Dramatic Plays :: Autobiographical writings :: Stories :: Essays Novels:
Anna Karenina
Boyhood
Childhood
The Cossacks, A Tale of 1852
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Hadji Murad
Master and Man
The Kreutzer Sonata
Resurrection; or, The Awakening
War and Peace
Youth Dramatic Plays:
Fruits of Culture
Redemption, also known as The Man who was Dead, or, Reparation, or The Living Corpse
The Power of Darkness Autobiographical writings:
A Confession
First Recollections
A History of Yesterday Stories:
Albert
The Candle
Family Happiness
Father Sergius
The Godfather
Katia
A Lost Opportunity
Polikushka: The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant
The Porcelain Doll
Strider: the Story of a Horse
Two Hussars
Fables for Children The Forged Coupon and Other Stories
- The Forged Coupon
- After The Dance
- Alyosha The Pot
- My Dream
- There Are No Guilty People
- The Young Tsar Twenty-three Tales:
- God Sees the Truth, But Waits
- The Prisoner of the Caucasus
- The Bear Hunt
- What Men Live By
- A Spark Neglected Burns the House
- Two Old Men
- Where Love is, There God is Also
- Ivan The Fool
- Evil Allures, But Good Endures
- Little Girls Wiser Than Men; or, Wisdom of Children
- Ily?s
- The Three Hermits
- The Imp and the Crust
- How Much Land Does a Man Need?
- A Grain As Big As A Hen's Egg
- The Godson
- The Repentant Sinner
- The Empty Drum
- The Coffee-House of Surat
- Too Dear!
- Esarhaddon, King of Assyria
- Work, Death, and Sickness
- Three Questions Essays:
A Comparison of America and Europe
The First Step
The Gospel In Brief
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Last Message to Mankind
A Letter to a Hindu
A Letter to Russian Liberals
The Moscow Census
My Religion
On Labor and Luxury
On the Significance of Science and Art
Patriotism and Government
The Slavery of Our Times
A Talk among Leisured People
Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow
Thou Shalt Not Kill
To the Tsar and His Assistants
To Women
To The Working People
Walk in the Light While There Is Light
What I Believe
What to Do?
Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves .
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