Anna Karenin (Classics) - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140440410 ISBN 13: 9780140440416

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1973

Synopsis

Anna is the gracious wife of Karenin, an ageing government official. She meets Count Vronsky through whom she rediscovers her passionate nature. Leaving her home and child to be with Vronsky, Anna defies society and convention. But as love dies away, suffering, and finally tragedy take its place.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140440410
• ISBN 13: 9780140440416
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 864