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Anna Karenina Mass market paperbound - 1961

by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy; David Magarshack (Translator)


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Anna Karenina is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1877. The story is set in 19th-century Russia and follows the life of Anna Karenina, a married woman who embarks on an affair with the wealthy Count Vronsky. As their affair becomes more passionate, Anna must grapple with the societal norms and expectations of her time, which view infidelity as a serious transgression. The novel explores themes of love, desire, societal expectations, and the consequences of our actions. It is considered one of the greatest works of literature and a masterpiece of realist fiction.

The long novel was first serialized in the Russian periodical Ruskii Vestnik from 1873 to 1877, and first appeared in book form in 1878.

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The award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel.

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Count Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University in 1844. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty in the army, serving as a junior officer in the Crimean War before retiring in 1857. In 1862, Tolstoy married Sophie Behrs, a marriage that was to become, for him, bitterly unhappy. His diary, started in 1847, was used for self-study and self-criticism; it served as the source from which he drew much of the material that appeared not only in his great novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), but also in his shorter works. Seeking religious justification for his life, Tolstoy evolved a new Christianity based upon his own interpretation of the Gospels. Yasnaya Polyana became a mecca for his many converts At the age of eighty-two, while away from home, the writer suffered a break down in his health in Astapovo, Riazan, and he died there on November 20, 1910.

First Edition Identification

The first edition of Anna Karenina was published in Russian in 1878. It was published in three volumes, bound in contemporary three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles, raised bands by T. Ris in Moscow. Anna Karenina’s first editions in Russian are rare.

The first English translation of Anna Karenina was published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. (1886). Binded in blue cloth, floral endpapers. It was translated by Nathan Haskell Dole and it included ads in both the front and the back of the book.

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  • Title Anna Karenina
  • Author Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy; David Magarshack (Translator)
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 805
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Classics, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date April 1, 1961
  • ISBN 9780451524492 / 0451524497
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.94 x 4.25 x 1.5 in (17.63 x 10.80 x 3.81 cm)
  • Reading level 1080
  • Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Russia - Social life and customs - 1533-1917
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000753
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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