Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

Overview

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

So begins the classic story of tragic adulterous love that has thrilled readers for over a century. Anna, miserable in her loveless marriage, does the barely thinkable and succumbs to her desires for the dashing Count Vronsky. Tolstoy intertwines the lives of many characters in Anna Karenina creating an intricate labyrinth of connections that is an adventure in reading. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared the novel "flawless as a work of art." His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the magic of Tolstoy's style," and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as "the best ever written." The book remains popular, as demonstrated by a 2007 poll of 125 contemporary authors in Time, which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written."

"One of the greatest love stories in world literature."
- Vladimir Nabokov.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158046261
Publisher:	Enhanced E-Books
Publication date:	12/30/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	804
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828 – 1910, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.

Date of Birth:

September 9, 1828

Date of Death:

November 20, 1910

Place of Birth:

Tula Province, Russia

Place of Death:

Astapovo, Russia

Education:

Privately educated by French and German tutors; attended the University of Kazan, 1844-47