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  • Published: 2 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141199610
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 864
  • RRP: $48.00

Anna Karenina




Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition

Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life - and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.

  • Published: 2 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141199610
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 864
  • RRP: $48.00

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About the author

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910.

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Praise for Anna Karenina

The new and brilliantly witty translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is a must

Lisa Appignanesi, Independent, Books of the Year

Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English, and their superb rendering allows us, as perhaps never before, to grasp the palpability of Tolstoy's "characters, acts, situations"

James Wood, New Yorker