Anna Karenina (Everyman's Library classics)

by Aylmer Maude (Translator), Louise Maude (Translator), Louise Maude (Translator), Aylmer Maude (Translator), Leo Tolstoy (Author), Leo Tolstoy (Author), John Bayley (Introduction), Leo Tolstoy (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $18.46

  Anna Karenina is the story of a woman who ab andons her empty existence as a society wife and embarks on a doomed love affair with the passionate but emotionally ban krupt Vronsky. It is widely acknowledged as the greatest nov el in any language '

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  Paperback
  1980

  $4.19

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  Paperback
  1995

  $7.12

  Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Introduction and Notes by E.B. Greenwood, University of Kent. Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels,- of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically, and there is much that evokes despair, yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life's many ephemeral pleasures, and a profusion of comic relief.