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Genre/Form: | Roman |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lev Nikolajevitsj Tolstoj |
ISBN: | 9780141199610 014119961X |
OCLC Number: | 1090572987 |
Language Note: | Engelsk tekst |
Notes: | Originaltittel: Anna Karenina Har bibliografi, noter |
Awards: | Winner of Oprah Book Club. Winner of PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. |
Description: | XXV, 837 s. |
Series Title: | Penguin classics (lassics) |
Other Titles: | Anna Karenina Anna Karenina |
Responsibility: | Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky ; with a preface by John Bayley. |
Abstract:
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.
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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 * Read more...

