Anna Karenina
Subtitle: backgrounds and sources criticism
By: Leo Tolstoy ; the Maude translation revised by George Gibian ; edited by George Gibian.
Contributors: Maude, Aylmer, 1858-1938.; Gibian, George.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 860
Subjects: Married women -- Fiction.; Adultery -- Fiction.; Russia -- Fiction.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 859-860).