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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... live , when he was presented with a new , insoluble problem – death . ' So he's dying , so he'll die towards spring , so how can I help him ? What can I say to him ? What do I know about it ? I even forgot there was such a thing ...
... live , when he was presented with a new , insoluble problem – death . ' So he's dying , so he'll die towards spring , so how can I help him ? What can I say to him ? What do I know about it ? I even forgot there was such a thing ...
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... live for himself , as an educated person ought to live . Service ? Here the service was also not that persistent , unrewarded drudgery that it was in Moscow ; here there was interest in it . An encounter , a favour , an apt word , an ...
... live for himself , as an educated person ought to live . Service ? Here the service was also not that persistent , unrewarded drudgery that it was in Moscow ; here there was interest in it . An encounter , a favour , an apt word , an ...
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graf Leo Tolstoy Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky. ' You do live , though ? ' ' I live , but in debt . ' ' Really ? How deep ? ' Bartniansky said with sympathy . ' Very deep - about twenty thousand . ' Bartniansky burst into merry ...
graf Leo Tolstoy Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky. ' You do live , though ? ' ' I live , but in debt . ' ' Really ? How deep ? ' Bartniansky said with sympathy . ' Very deep - about twenty thousand . ' Bartniansky burst into merry ...
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