Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.
Leo Tolstoy (Author)
Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at
the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851
when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He
established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches
(1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married,
had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga
Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A
Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in
1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in
1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway
station of Astapovo.
Richard Pevear (Introducer)
Richard Pevear, along with his wife Larissa Volokhonsky, has
translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov
and Pasternak. They both were twice awarded the
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky's The
Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina). They are married
and live in France.
The new and brilliantly witty translation by Richard Pevear and
Larissa Volokhonsky is a must
*Independent, Books of the Year*
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"
*New Yorker*
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