Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics S.)

Tolstoy, Leo

ISBN 10: 0140864857 ISBN 13: 9780140864854

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1996

Synopsis

This is the story of a fashionable woman who abandons husband, son and social position for a passionate liaison. The novel also features the character Levin, a true reflection of Tolstoy himself and his tortured search for the meaning of life.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140864857
• ISBN 13: 9780140864854
• Binding: Audio Cassette