Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/02/2010
ISBN: 9780099540663
Length: 992 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 43mm x 129mm
Weight: 671g
RRP: £8.99
'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies
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
Published: 04/02/2010
ISBN: 9780099540663
Length: 992 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 43mm x 129mm
Weight: 671g
RRP: £8.99
One of the greatest love stories in world literature
Tolstoy's historical and human sweep is breathtaking. His vision, humanity and his knowledge that love and pain are at the heart of life is the most important of all the profound truths revealed in this great novel
In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy got totally inside the mind of a woman who is prepared to lose everything for the sake of man and who is so much in love that she commits suicide. I don't like her as a woman, but I think it is a brilliant portrait, unequalled in literature
I've read and re-read this novel and every time I find another layer in the story
I first read Anna Karenina 20 years ago when travelling across the Peruvian desert on a long bus journey, and it has stayed with me ever since