Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo
Maude, Louise Shanks
Maude, Aylmer (TRN)
Maude, Aylmer
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A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesnt experience the sam
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A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesnt experience the same kind of emotional upheaval. Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian milieu, but it still belongs entirely to the woman whose name it bears, whose portrait is one of the truest ever made by a writer.
Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude
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In a novel as good and as spacious as Tolstoys all things are possible. It must contain, as it does, the muddle and unpredictability of life, its refusal to supply endings or neat situations. And indeed this is where the greatness of the novel will be found to lie. Of all authors Tolstoy is the one whose art most contradicts his own views, and yet the one whose true personality is most revealed in his art. And what is Annas 'true personality'? It remains to the end not an enigma, but a factor and a phenomenon that is infinitely variable, like life itself. from the Introduction by John Bayley
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ISBN: 0679410007
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679410003
Copyright: 1992
Dewey Decimal: 891.73/3
Library of Congress: 91053196
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 1.95
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