'One of the greatest love stories in world literature'Vladimir NabokovAnna 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 GregoryTRANSLATED BY LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDEVINTAGE CLASSICS RUSSIAN SERIES - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784871956Number of pages: 992Weight: 870 gDimensions: 216 x 153 x 41 mm
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One of the greatest love stories in world literatureTolstoy'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 novelIn 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 literatureI've read and re-read this novel and every time I find another layer in the storyI 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
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