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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

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Anna Karenina tells 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, Pevear and 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 Karenina will be the definitive text for generations to come.

Review:

"Pevear and Volokhonsky...have produced the first new translation of Leo Tolstoy's classic Anna Karenina in 40 years. The result should make the book accessible to a new generation of readers....[S]ucceeds in bringing Tolstoy's masterpiece to life once again." Library Journal

Review:

"The first English translation in 40 years, [this] Anna Karenina is the most scrupulous, illuminating and compelling version yet." Portland Oregonian

Review:

"Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have received honors for their translations...[this] contribution will doubtless be welcomed with equal enthusiasm. " San Diego Union-Tribune

Review:

"Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have...retain[ed] the flavor of [Tolstoy's] unique voice." Dallas Morning News

Review:

"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

Review:

"At last, a version of Tolstoy's great novel that is neither musty, nor overly modernized, nor primly recast as a Victorian landscape. With their unusual fastidious precision for Russian contexts and modes of address, the prizewinning Pevear/Volokhonsky team has given us a pellucid Anna Karenina that speaks (as Tolstoy himself wished to speak) from within its own time, but for all times." Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

Synopsis:

Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this is the new English-language translation of one of the world's literary masterpieces. Includes an illuminating Introduction and explanatory notes.

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About the Author

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.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780142000274

Subtitle:

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Author:

Tolstoy, Leo

Translator:

Pevear, Richard

Translator:

Volokhonsky, Larissa

Author:

Pevear, Richard

Author:

Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich

Author:

Volokhonsky, Larissa

Publisher:

Penguin Books

Location:

New York, N.Y.

Subject:

Classics

Subject:

Adultery

Subject:

Married women

Subject:

Russia

Subject:

Literary

Edition Description:

Mass Market

Series:

Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio

Series Volume:

SO-95

Publication Date:

20011201

Binding:

Paperback

Grade Level:

from 12

Language:

English

Pages:

864

Dimensions:

8.56x5.64x1.87 in. 2.01 lbs.

Age Level:

from 18

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Product details 864 pages Penguin Books - 0- English 9780142000274 Reviews:

"Review" by Library Journal, "Pevear and Volokhonsky...have produced the first new translation of Leo Tolstoy's classic Anna Karenina in 40 years. The result should make the book accessible to a new generation of readers....[S]ucceeds in bringing Tolstoy's masterpiece to life once again."

"Review" by Portland Oregonian, "The first English translation in 40 years, [this] Anna Karenina is the most scrupulous, illuminating and compelling version yet."

"Review" by San Diego Union-Tribune, "Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have received honors for their translations...[this] contribution will doubtless be welcomed with equal enthusiasm. "

"Review" by Dallas Morning News, "Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have...retain[ed] the flavor of [Tolstoy's] unique voice."

"Review" by James Wood, The New Yorker, "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.'"

"Review" by Caryl Emerson, Princeton University, "At last, a version of Tolstoy's great novel that is neither musty, nor overly modernized, nor primly recast as a Victorian landscape. With their unusual fastidious precision for Russian contexts and modes of address, the prizewinning Pevear/Volokhonsky team has given us a pellucid Anna Karenina that speaks (as Tolstoy himself wished to speak) from within its own time, but for all times."

"Synopsis" by Libri, Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this is the new English-language translation of one of the world's literary masterpieces. Includes an illuminating Introduction and explanatory notes.