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Anna Karenina

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099540663

  • Length: 992  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 43mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 671g

  • RRP: £8.99

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall. In this extraordinary novel Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099540663

  • Length: 992  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 43mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 671g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • "One of the greatest love stories in world literature"

    Independent

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About the Author

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Leo Tolstoy

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