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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graf Leo Tolstoy Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky. a low - cut black velvet dress , which revealed her full shoulders and bosom , as if shaped from old ivory , and her rounded arms with their very small , slender hands . The dress was ...
graf Leo Tolstoy Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky. a low - cut black velvet dress , which revealed her full shoulders and bosom , as if shaped from old ivory , and her rounded arms with their very small , slender hands . The dress was ...
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... dresses and arguing over Kitty's wanting to give Dunyasha the brown dress she had been wearing when Levin proposed to her , while he insisted that that dress should not be given to anyone and that Dunyasha should get the light blue one ...
... dresses and arguing over Kitty's wanting to give Dunyasha the brown dress she had been wearing when Levin proposed to her , while he insisted that that dress should not be given to anyone and that Dunyasha should get the light blue one ...
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... dress . You , too , I think . We all got dirty at the construction site . ' Dolly went to her room and felt like laughing . She had nothing to change into because she had already put on her best dress ; but to mark her preparations for ...
... dress . You , too , I think . We all got dirty at the construction site . ' Dolly went to her room and felt like laughing . She had nothing to change into because she had already put on her best dress ; but to mark her preparations for ...
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