“Considered the greatest novel of the nineteenth century, Anna Karenina contains the nucleus of Tolstoy’s program for nonviolence and abstention from worldly riches-a program based on a personal interpretation of the Gospels that made him one of the world’s most venerated teachers. By clicking Sign Up, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Hachette Book Groups Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Now the subject of a major new film adaptation from director Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), Leo Tolstoys Anna Karenina is translated by award-winning duo Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky in Penguin Classics. Levin, an eccentric and melancholy young nobleman, surrenders his individuality to live as a peasant. Sensual, rebellious, Anna renounces respectable marriage and fine position for a passionate involvement which offers a taste of freedom and a trap for destruction. This is the double drama of Anna and of Levin. This authoritative edition, which received the PEN Translation Prize and was an Oprah Book Club. To this novel he brought his troubling conviction that at his moments of most intense experience man is closest to death. Anna Karenina(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition). Product Detailsįrom the back cover: “Tolstoy’s genius for viewing social classes in the largest possible context and for sketching the subtlest human gestures becomes most evident in Anna Karenina. There is no writing, no highlighting, and no creases, but the pages are beginning to tan with age. GOOD: This mass-market paperback shows the usual signs of use and wear on its edges and corners.
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