Anna Karenina
By: Leo Tolstoy ; edited from the translation by Constance Garnett
Contributors: Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946, translator
Edition: Collector's edition
Series: Classic library
Publisher: Dalmation Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Franklin, Tennessee
Language: eng
Number of pages: 792
ISBN-13: 9781403717221
Subjects: Married women; Fiction; Adultery; Social conditions
Work titles: Anna Karenina
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. 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.
Notes: Translated from the Russian.