Anna Karenina
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
One of literature's most devastating portraits of passion and consequence, Anna Karenina chronicles the tragic arc of Anna, a sophisticated and beautiful Russian aristocrat who abandons her respectable marriage and social standing for a consuming love affair with the dashing Count Vronsky — a choice that sets her on an irreversible collision course with 19th-century Imperial Russian society. Set against a richly rendered backdrop of St. Petersburg ballrooms and Moscow drawing rooms, Tolstoy masterfully weaves Anna's doomed romance alongside the contrasting story of Konstantin Levin, a landowner whose quiet search for spiritual meaning and domestic happiness offers a counterpoint to Anna's turbulent fate. Widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina stands as the supreme achievement of literary realism, presenting with unflinching moral complexity the tensions between individual desire and social obligation, freedom and duty, faith and doubt. Tolstoy's prose — rendered here in the celebrated translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude, and illustrated with the luminous paintings of James Tissot — carries an extraordinary psychological depth, rendering each character with such vivid humanity that their inner lives feel utterly modern. This Franklin Library edition is a collector's treasure that invites the reader to ask, with every turn of the page, whether Anna ever truly had a choice at all.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, The Franklin Library
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
One of literature's most devastating portraits of passion and consequence, Anna Karenina chronicles the tragic arc of Anna, a sophisticated and beautiful Russian aristocrat who abandons her respectable marriage and social standing for a consuming love affair with the dashing Count Vronsky — a choice that sets her on an irreversible collision course with 19th-century Imperial Russian society. Set against a richly rendered backdrop of St. Petersburg ballrooms and Moscow drawing rooms, Tolstoy masterfully weaves Anna's doomed romance alongside the contrasting story of Konstantin Levin, a landowner whose quiet search for spiritual meaning and domestic happiness offers a counterpoint to Anna's turbulent fate. Widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina stands as the supreme achievement of literary realism, presenting with unflinching moral complexity the tensions between individual desire and social obligation, freedom and duty, faith and doubt. Tolstoy's prose — rendered here in the celebrated translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude, and illustrated with the luminous paintings of James Tissot — carries an extraordinary psychological depth, rendering each character with such vivid humanity that their inner lives feel utterly modern. This Franklin Library edition is a collector's treasure that invites the reader to ask, with every turn of the page, whether Anna ever truly had a choice at all.