| Anna Karenina Contributor(s): Leo Tolstoy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1535299002 ISBN-13: 9781535299008 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.02 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Media Tie-in - Fiction | Romance - New Adult - Fiction | Literary |
| Lexile Measure: 790 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6" W x 9" (1.03 lbs) 318 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 702 Reading Level: 9.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 69.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1875 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's negative views of Russian volunteers going to fight in Serbia); therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form in 1878. Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Anna Karenina recounts St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina's life story at the backdrop of the late-19th-century feudal Russian society. Having considered War and Peace not a novel, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first true novel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared it "flawless as a work of art." His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style," and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as "the best ever written." The novel remains popular, as demonstrated by a 2007 poll of 125 contemporary authors in Time, which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest book ever written." |