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ISBN-10: 067978330X
ISBN-13: 9780679783305
Publisher: Modern Library
Publish Date: 10/10/2000
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.10" W, 1.60" H

Anna Karenina

Introduction by: Mona Simpson
Translator: Constance Garnett
Revised by: Leonard J Kent
Revised by: Nina Berberova

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Overview

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

ISBN-10: 067978330X
ISBN-13: 9780679783305
Publisher: Modern Library
Publish Date: 10/10/2000
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.10" W, 1.60" H
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