Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Tolstoy, Leo; Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa

• ISBN13: 9780142000274
• ISBN10: 0142000272
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

Anna Kareninatells 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 must endure 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. While previous versions have softened the robust, and sometimes shocking, quality of Tolstoy's writing, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This award-winning team's authoritative edition also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this Anna Kareninawill be the definitive text for generations to come. "Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English, and their superb rendering allows us, as perhaps never before, to grasp the palpability of Tolstoy's 'characters, acts, situations.'" (James Wood, The New Yorker)

Author Biography

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) wrote two of Russia's greatest novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), as well as many short stories and essays.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Translators' Note	p. xvi
Further Reading	p. xviii
List of Principal Characters	p. xx
	p. 1
	p. 117
	p. 237
	p. 353
	p. 437
	p. 551
	p. 671
	p. 769
Notes	p. 819
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