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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Fiction, Classics, Literary
Hardcover
Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780809596812
Publisher: Wildside Pr
Published: Jan 1 2004
Pages: 740
Weight: 2.71
Height: 1.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Anna, miserable in a loveless marriage, succumbs to the desire for the dashing Vronsky. That sort of thing didn't stand one in good stead in 19th-century Russia; bad goes to worse and the end Anna comes to is the stuff of legend. Tolstoy seamlessly captures a weaves a tapestry of 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.
The novel remains popular, as demonstrated by a 2007 poll of 125 contemporary authors in Time, which declared that Anna Karenina is the greatest book ever written. Anna Karenina may be the greatest single novel ever written; it may also be just plainly and sublimely good. Regardless, there is no doubt that Anna Karenina (generally considered Tolstoy's finest novel) is a sublime achievement.
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