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 75
... stood by the lamp . Anna , looking down , at once recognized Vronsky , and a strange feeling of pleasure suddenly stirred in her heart , together with a fear of something . He stood without removing his coat , and was taking something ...
... stood by the lamp . Anna , looking down , at once recognized Vronsky , and a strange feeling of pleasure suddenly stirred in her heart , together with a fear of something . He stood without removing his coat , and was taking something ...
Page 141
... stood holding the carriage door open . The doorkeeper stood holding the front door . Anna Arkadyevna , with her small , quick hand , was freeing the lace of her sleeve , which had caught on the hooks of her fur coat , and , head lowered ...
... stood holding the carriage door open . The doorkeeper stood holding the front door . Anna Arkadyevna , with her small , quick hand , was freeing the lace of her sleeve , which had caught on the hooks of her fur coat , and , head lowered ...
Page 142
... stood face to face with something illogical and senseless , and he did not know what to do . Alexei Alexandrovich stood face to face with life , confronting the possibility of his wife loving someone else besides him , and it was this ...
... stood face to face with something illogical and senseless , and he did not know what to do . Alexei Alexandrovich stood face to face with life , confronting the possibility of his wife loving someone else besides him , and it was this ...
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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