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Anna Karenina
by Tolstoy, Leo
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0330248022
- ISBN 13
- 9780330248020
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1977* Publisher: PAN* Binding and cover condition: Soft illustrated card covers showing Nicola Pagett as Anna in the BBC dramatisation. No bumps or rubs. Slight shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, & tight. No annotations. inscriptions or marks to text, seems very lightly read if at all. Slight colouration to pages throughout. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 783 pp. text.* Product Description:- A classic novel about a woman named Anna, who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature. The story is of her loveless marriage, her adulterous passion and her final downfall ? set against a vivid canvas of Russian life ? and has a timeless appeal and an enduring popularity second only to Tolstoy?s mighty "War & Peace". This is a distinguished translation by Constance Garnett with a Foreword by Donald Wilson who was the person responsible for dramatizing and producing the esteemed BBC TV production.* This is a NEAR FINE copy with minor shelf wear & light tanning reducing it to VG*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 138
- Title
- Anna Karenina
- Author
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0330248022
- ISBN 13
- 9780330248020
- Publisher
- Pan
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 783
- This edition first published
- 1977
- Size
- 19.8 x 13 x 4.1 cm
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