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 447
... already been ranged along the street by policemen . A police officer , disdainful of the frost , stood at the entrance in his dazzling uniform . More carriages kept driving up , and ladies in flowers , picking up the trains of their ...
... already been ranged along the street by policemen . A police officer , disdainful of the frost , stood at the entrance in his dazzling uniform . More carriages kept driving up , and ladies in flowers , picking up the trains of their ...
Page 681
... already made that morning , but for diversity offered a new opinion that had just occurred to him . After that the talk on the university question started up again . Since Levin had already heard it all , he hastened to tell Metrov that ...
... already made that morning , but for diversity offered a new opinion that had just occurred to him . After that the talk on the university question started up again . Since Levin had already heard it all , he hastened to tell Metrov that ...
Page 811
... already invaded all the distant forest and half the nearby field and was moving quickly towards Kolok . The dampness of rain breaking up into fine drops filled the air . Lowering his head and struggling against the wind , which tore the ...
... already invaded all the distant forest and half the nearby field and was moving quickly towards Kolok . The dampness of rain breaking up into fine drops filled the air . Lowering his head and struggling against the wind , which tore the ...
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