Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life."
| ISBN: | 9780679783305 |
| Publication date: | 10th October 2000 |
| Author: | Leo Tolstoy, Leonard J Kent, N Berberova, Constance Garnett |
| Publisher: | Modern Library an imprint of Random House Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 938 pages |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Historical romance General Fiction |
Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life."
Anna Karenina features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Historical romance, General Fiction
Anna Karenina is available in Paperback
Anna Karenina was written by Leo Tolstoy, Leonard J Kent, N Berberova, Constance Garnett and published by Modern Library an imprint of Random House Publishing Group
Anna Karenina has 938 pages
Yes it is part of Modern Library Classics series