War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Two Volume Set)

Published by International Collectors Library, Garden City, 1949

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5.75"x8.5" War & Peace 696 numbered pgs. Anna Karenina 736 numbered pages. Almond leatherette boards w/beautiful gilt designs on front and spine. Speckled light almond paste downs. Red silk ribbon marker. War and Peace tralated by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin. Anna Karenina translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. Deckled edges. Faint foxing to top edge. Spines straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unmarked, no DJ. Secure ship w/track #. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions. War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men. As Napoleon's army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds-peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers-as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most moving-and human-figures in world literature.…

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Title
War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Two Volume Set)
Author
Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910)
Publisher
International Collectors Library, Garden City
Publication year
1949
Condition
Near Fine
Binding
Leatherette
Illustrator
Eichenberg, Fritz / Don Sibley
Item weight
3.11 pounds
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