![]() While previous versions have softened the robust, and sometimes shocking, quality of Tolstoy's writing, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced a magnificent translation that is true to his powerful voice. ![]() One of the world's greatest novels, Anna Karenina is both an immortal drama of personal conflict and social scandal and a vivid, richly textured panorama of nineteenth-century Russia. When she meets, the dashing officer Count Vronsky she rejects her marriage and turns to him to fulfill her passionate nature-with devastating results. Winner of the PEN/BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB TRANSLATION PRIZEĪnna Karenina has beauty, social position, wealth, a husband, and an adored son, but her existence seems empty. Please do not combine with any of the works representing the individual volumes (see combination rules regarding part/whole issues for details).Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Last words: I'll go on not understanding with my reason why I pray, and go on praying-but from now on my life, my whole life, no matter what happens to me, every second of it, is not only not meaningless as it wĭisambiguation notice: This is the work for the complete Anna Karenina. ![]() Carmichael, 1960) All happy families resemble one another, every unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion. ![]() Original publication date: 1873 to 1877 1918 (English: MaĬharacters: Anna Arkadyevna Karenina, Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin, Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky, Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky, Darya Alexandrovna Oblonskaya, Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin, Nikolai Levin, Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya, Sergei Alexeyitch Karenin,īook awards: Oprah's Book Club selection (2004), BBC's Big Read (Best loved novel, 2003, No 54), The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time (2003), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006/2008 Edition), Guardian 1000 (Love),Įpigraph: Vengeance is mine I will repay.įirst words: Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ![]()
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