Anna KareninaAnna 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. |
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Page 43
... Kitty Shcherbatsky was eighteen years old . She had come out for the first time this season . Her success in society was greater than that of her two older sisters and greater than the old princess had even expected . Not only were all ...
... Kitty Shcherbatsky was eighteen years old . She had come out for the first time this season . Her success in society was greater than that of her two older sisters and greater than the old princess had even expected . Not only were all ...
Page 224
... Kitty did not learn all this from words . Mme Stahl spoke with Kitty as with a dear child , whom one looks upon fondly as a memory of one's youth , and she only once mentioned that in all human griefs consolation is given by faith and ...
... Kitty did not learn all this from words . Mme Stahl spoke with Kitty as with a dear child , whom one looks upon fondly as a memory of one's youth , and she only once mentioned that in all human griefs consolation is given by faith and ...
Page 225
... Kitty . But these were all secret thoughts which Kitty did not speak about either to her mother or to Varenka . Even now , however , in anticipation of the time for fulfilling her plans on a large scale , Kitty easily found occasion ...
... Kitty . But these were all secret thoughts which Kitty did not speak about either to her mother or to Varenka . Even now , however , in anticipation of the time for fulfilling her plans on a large scale , Kitty easily found occasion ...
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Agafya Mikhailovna Alexei Alexandrovich already Anna Arkadyevna Anna Karenina Anna's asked began Betsy better blushing brother calm carriage conversation Countess Lydia Ivanovna Darya Alexandrovna dinner divorce doctor Dolly door drawing room dress everything expression eyes face feeling felt footman forgive frock coat girl glad glanced Golenishchev hand happy head heard heart horse husband impossible Karenin Katavasov kissed Kitty Kitty's knew ladies laughing leave listening live looking Mme Stahl Moscow mother muzhiks never Nikolai Oblonsky once Petersburg pity prince princess question remembered replied Russian seemed Sergei Ivanovich Seryozha Shcherbatsky silent sitting smile soul Stepan Arkadyich Stiva stood stopped suddenly Sviyazhsky talk tell terrible there's thing thought told Tolstoy took tormented turned understand understood unpleasant Varenka Veslovsky voice Vronsky Vronsky's waiting walked wanted wet nurse whole wife wish woman words Yashvin young Zaraysk zemstvo