$33.99
- Hardcover
864 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2014
Summary
Tolstoy’s epic novel of love, destiny, and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition.
Anna Karenina seems to have everything: beauty, wealth, popularity, and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike, and soon brings jealousy and bitterness in its wake.
Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly obs…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141199610 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014119961X |
| Author: | Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 864 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 1.01kg |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 140mm x 52mm |
| Series: | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
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Critics Review
“One of the greatest love stories in world literature.” –Vladimir Nabokov
The new and brilliantly witty translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is a must – Lisa Appignanesi * Independent, Books of the Year *Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English, and their superb rendering allows us, as perhaps never before, to grasp the palpability of Tolstoy’s “characters, acts, situations” – James Wood * New Yorker *
About The Author
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy (Author)
Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.
Richard Pevear (Introducer)
Richard Pevear, along with his wife Larissa Volokhonsky, has translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov and Pasternak. They were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina). They are married and live in France.
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