Anna Karenina
$25.38
- Paperback
960 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2005
Summary
Leo Tolstoy’s evocative tale of doomed love—one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
Anna Karenina startled the world with its powerful portrayal of the human need for love and purpose. In a story that brings to vivid life nineteenth-century Russia across various social classes, Anna renounces a respectable yet stifling marriage for a passionate affair that weighs her happiness against her love for her son, her family’s status, and the rigid demands of society. Her story …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451528612 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0451528611 |
| Author: | Leo Tolstoy |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Signet Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 960 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2005 |
| Weight: | 404g |
| Dimensions: | 172mm x 105mm |
| Series: | Signet Classics (Hardcover) |
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About The Author
Leo Tolstoy
Count Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University in 1844. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty in the army, serving as a junior officer in the Crimean War before retiring in 1857. His diary, started in 1847, was used for self-study and self-criticism; it served as the source from which he drew much of the material that appeared not only in his great novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), but also in his shorter works. Seeking religious justification for his life, Tolstoy evolved a new Christianity based upon his own interpretation of the Gospels. Yasnaya Polyana became a Mecca for his many converts. At the age of eighty-two, while away from home, the writer suffered a breakdown in his health in Astapovo, Riazan, and he died there on November 20, 1910.
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