| Anna Karenina Contributor(s): Tolstoy, Leo (Author), Simpson, Mona (Introduction by), Garnett, Constance (Translator) |
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ISBN: 067978330X ISBN-13: 9780679783305 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2000 Annotation: Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, "Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take "Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00056640 |
| Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (1.15 lbs) 976 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 702 Reading Level: 9.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 69.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life." |