Anna Karenina (Modern Library Classics) (Paperback)

Anna Karenina (Modern Library Classics) By Leo Tolstoy, Mona Simpson (Introduction by), Constance Garnett (Translated by), Leonard J. Kent (Revised by), Nina Berberova (Revised by) Cover Image
By Leo Tolstoy, Mona Simpson (Introduction by), Constance Garnett (Translated by), Leonard J. Kent (Revised by), Nina Berberova (Revised by)
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Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life."

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Praise For…


"One of the greatest love stories in world literature."
--Vladimir Nabokov


Product Details
ISBN: 9780679783305
ISBN-10: 067978330X
Publisher: Modern Library
Publication Date: October 10th, 2000
Pages: 976
Language: English
Series: Modern Library Classics