A powerful meditation on desire, fatalism and the dangers of self-deception, Tolstoy’s tragic love story follows the titular heroine’s extramarital affair with the handsome Count Vronsky that sets her on a treacherous path of no return.
'One of the greatest love stories in world literature' Vladimir Nabokov
Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials form the backdrop for a similar quest, Tolstoy creates a rich and complex masterpiece that has captured the imagination of readers for decades.
'I've read and re-read this novel and every time I find another layer in the story' Philippa Gregory
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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784871956
Number of pages: 992
Weight: 877 g
Dimensions: 215 x 156 x 41 mm
One of the greatest love stories in world literature - Vladimir Nabokov
Tolstoy's historical and human sweep is breathtaking. His vision, humanity and his knowledge that love and pain are at the heart of life is the most important of all the profound truths revealed in this great novel - Jonathan Dimbleby
In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy got totally inside the mind of a woman who is prepared to lose everything for the sake of man and who is so much in love that she commits suicide. I don't like her as a woman, but I think it is a brilliant portrait, unequalled in literature - Amanda Craig, Independent
I've read and re-read this novel and every time I find another layer in the story - Philippa Gregory
I first read Anna Karenina 20 years ago when travelling across the Peruvian desert on a long bus journey, and it has stayed with me ever since - Hugh Thomson, Independent
Anyone who has read Anna Karenina will be aware of its extraordinary power as an epic psychological tale of a woman who gives up her husband and son for the sake of an affair with a handsome army officer. It has humour but, as with all of Tolstoy's works, it is completely without sentimentality - Mail on Sunday
I just love this classic romance about a married mother who succumbs to an unsuitable lover and becomes pregnant by him, which of course results in all sorts of pressures and heartache. The best love story ever told - Kay Burley
Probably one of the greatest novelistic treatments of the torments of love - Daily Mail
Anna Karenina Easy Classics
This is a concise distillation of the epic classic Anna Karenina.
It's designed for children and as such, skims over some of the more adult themes.
Dolly Oblonsky is somewhat...
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Brilliant story only bad thing is this ebook contains too many obvious spelling mistakes.
Before you pick up Anna Karenina be prepared for something that is a long read but something that you find yourself getting truly pulled into. To begin with you might find some parts of the book waffley and full of... More
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