num_pages: 880
description: 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. Text Of Anna Karenina -- Backgrounds And Sources : Publication History Of Anna Karenina ; Extracts From Letters, Diaries, And Newspapers -- Criticism : The Russian View Of Human Guilt And Crime / Fyodor M. Dostoevsky ; Levin And Social Chaos / Nikolai N. Strakhov ; Anna Karenina As Life, Not Literature / Matthew Arnold ; The Epigraph And The Meaning Of The Novel / M.s. Gromeka -- Tolstoy's Physical Descriptions / D.s. Merezhkovsky -- Anna Karenina And The Literary Tradition, The Composition Of Anna Karenina : Its Russian And Western Antecedents, The Puzzle Of The Epigraph, N. Schopenhauer / Boris Eikhenbaum ; D.h. Lawrence And Tolstoy : A Critical Debate, Henry Gifford : Anna, Lawrence And The Law, Raymond Williams : Lawrence And Tolstoy, Henry Gifford : Further Notes On Anna Karenina / Henry Gifford And Raymond Williams ; The Beginning Of Anna Karenina, The Ending Of Anna Karenina / George Steiner ; Two Kinds Of Human Understanding And The Narrator's Voice In Anna Karenina / George Gibian ; Causal Conditionality / Lydia Ginzburg ; The Tale Of Three Portraits / Eduard Babaev ; Anna Karenina's Omens / Gary Saul Morson ; Is Tolstoy Monologic? / Gary Emerson ; Children And Peasants In Anna Karenina : From Nature To Culture, Moral Freedom : Schopenhauer And Levin / Donna Tussing Orwin. Leo Tolstoy ; The Maude Translation Revised By George Gibian ; Edited By George Gibian. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 859-860).
language: en
title: Anna Karenina: The Maude Translation: Backgrounds and Sources Criticism (A Norton Critical Edition)
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company