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Anna Karenina
4.07 (756,292 ratings by Goodreads)
Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) Leo Tolstoy , Translated by Rosamund Bartlett


Description
Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.

At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. The love affair of Anna and Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance of Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper
philosophical significance.

One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina combines penetrating psychological insight with an encyclopedic depiction of Russian life in the 1870s. The novel takes us from high society St Petersburg to the threshing fields on Levins estate, with unforgettable scenes at a Moscow ballroom, the skating rink, a race course, a railway station. It creates an intricate labyrinth of connections that is profoundly satisfying, and deeply moving.

Rosamund Bartletts translation conveys Tolstoys precision of meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful. Like her acclaimed biography of Tolstoy, it is vivid, nuanced, and compelling.


Product details

Format Paperback | 896 pages
Dimensions 136 x 195 x 41mm | 612g
Publication date 01 Jun 2016
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement 2nd ed.
ISBN10 0198748841
ISBN13 9780198748847
Bestsellers rank 70,428