Anna Karenina : a novel in eight parts /

Tolstoy, L. N. 1828-1910.

Anna Karenina : a novel in eight parts / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. - [New ed.] / with a preface by John Bayley. - London : Penguin, 2003. - xxv, 837 p. ; 20 cm. - Penguin classics .

Previous ed. of this translation: London: Allen Lane, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxii-xxiii).

Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as a wife and turns to her lover Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature.


Translated from the Russian.

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Karenina, Anna (Fictitious character)--Fiction.


Russia--Social conditions--Fiction.

PG3365.A6