Anna Karenina: A Novel in Eight PartsAt its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. The love affair of Anna and Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance of Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance. One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina combines penetrating psychological insight with an encyclopedic depiction of Russian life in the 1870s. The novel takes us from high society St Petersburg to the threshing fields on Levin's estate, with unforgettable scenes at a Moscow ballroom, the skating rink, a race course, a railway station. It creates an intricate labyrinth of connections that is profoundly satisfying, and deeply moving. Rosamund Bartlett's new translation conveys Tolstoy's precision of meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful. Like her acclaimed biography of Tolstoy, it is vivid, nuanced, and compelling. |
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Page 164
... already be seen , and just as Levin aimed , red lightning flashed from behind the bush where Oblonsky stood ; the bird dropped like an arrow and again soared up . Lightning flashed again and a clap was heard ; fluttering its wings as if ...
... already be seen , and just as Levin aimed , red lightning flashed from behind the bush where Oblonsky stood ; the bird dropped like an arrow and again soared up . Lightning flashed again and a clap was heard ; fluttering its wings as if ...
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 ...
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... 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 ...
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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 happiness head heard horse husband impossible Karenin Katavasov kissed Kitty Kitty's knew Konstantin Levin laughing leave listening live looking Lvov Marya Mme Stahl Moscow mother muzhiks never Nikolai Oblonsky once Petersburg pity prince princess question remembered replied seemed Sergei Ivanovich Seryozha Shcherbatsky silent sitting smile soul Stepan Arkadyich Stiva stood stopped suddenly Sviyazhsky tailcoat talk tarantass tell terrible there's thing thought told took turned understand understood unpleasant Varenka Veslovsky voice Vronsky Vronsky's waiting walked wanted wet nurse whole wife wish woman words Yashvin young zemstvo