Anna Karenina (Everyman's Library Classics) - Hardcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857150589 ISBN 13: 9781857150582

Publisher: Everyman, 1992

Synopsis

Anna Karenina is the story of a woman who ab andons her empty existence as a society wife and embarks on a doomed love affair with the passionate but emotionally ban krupt Vronsky. It is widely acknowledged as the greatest nov el in any language '

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Review:

" In a novel as good and as spacious as Tolstoy' s all things are possible. It must contain, as it does, the muddle and unpredictability of life, its refusal to supply endings or neat situations. And indeed this is where the greatness of the novel will be found to lie. Of all authors Tolstoy is the one whose art most contradicts his own views, and yet the one whose true personality is most revealed in his art. And what is Anna' s 'true personality'? It remains to the end not an enigma, but a factor and a phenomenon that is infinitely variable, like life itself." - from the Introduction by John Bayley

In a novel as good and as spacious as Tolstoy s all things are possible. It must contain, as it does, the muddle and unpredictability of life, its refusal to supply endings or neat situations. And indeed this is where the greatness of the novel will be found to lie. Of all authors Tolstoy is the one whose art most contradicts his own views, and yet the one whose true personality is most revealed in his art. And what is Anna s 'true personality'? It remains to the end not an enigma, but a factor and a phenomenon that is infinitely variable, like life itself.
from the Introduction by John Bayley"

"In a novel as good and as spacious as Tolstoy's all things are possible. It must contain, as it does, the muddle and unpredictability of life, its refusal to supply endings or neat situations. And indeed this is where the greatness of the novel will be found to lie. Of all authors Tolstoy is the one whose art most contradicts his own views, and yet the one whose true personality is most revealed in his art. And what is Anna's 'true personality'? It remains to the end not an enigma, but a factor and a phenomenon that is infinitely variable, like life itself."
-from the Introduction by John Bayley

Book Description:

'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1857150589
• ISBN 13: 9781857150582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 964