Anna Karenina: Imagining Being an American

Name: Anna Karenina: Imagining Being an American
Rating: 3.9955357142857144 (784 reviews)
Author: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780030562891

by Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett, Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude, Dmitriy Butko, George Gibian

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566 pages483 editions2003Holt, Rinehart, and WinstonISBN 9780030562891

Married women -- FictionAdultery -- FictionRussia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction

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Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.

Publication Details

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Published: 2003
Pages: 566
ISBN: 9780030562891
Language: en
Editions: 483

About Leo Tolstoy

Лев Николаевич Толстой (9 сентября 1828 – 20 ноября 1910) – русский писатель. Он считается одним из величайших и самых влиятельных авторов всех времён. Среди наиболее известных произведений Толстого – романы «Война и мир» (1869) и «Анна Каренина» (1878), которые часто называют вершинами реалистической прозы и двумя величайшими книгами всех времён. ---------- Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. Tolstoy's notable works include the novels *War and Peace* (1869) and *Anna Karenina* (1878), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction, and two of the greatest books of all time.