Anna Karenina (Two-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
One of literature's most shattering portraits of human desire and moral consequence, Anna Karenina chronicles the life of a brilliant, beautiful aristocrat who risks everything — her marriage, her son, and her standing in St. Petersburg's glittering Imperial society — for a passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky. Set against the sweeping backdrop of 19th-century Russia, Leo Tolstoy constructs a dual narrative that runs in counterpoint: Anna's tragic descent into obsession and social ruin alongside the quieter, more redemptive spiritual journey of the landowner Levin, who searches for meaning in faith, love, and honest labour. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina stands as the supreme achievement of Tolstoy's realist mastery — a work that dissects marriage, infidelity, class, and the hypocrisies of polite society with surgical precision and profound compassion. The famous opening declaration — All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way — signals the novel's vast moral ambition from its very first line. Tolstoy's prose moves with an almost cinematic fluidity between drawing rooms and country estates, ballrooms and railway platforms, binding the intimate and the epic into a single, indissoluble vision. This handsome two-volume edition presents one of world literature's most enduring and devastating works in a form worthy of its stature — the question it poses, of how one truly ought to live, remains as urgent and unanswered as ever.
Author: Tolstoy
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
One of literature's most shattering portraits of human desire and moral consequence, Anna Karenina chronicles the life of a brilliant, beautiful aristocrat who risks everything — her marriage, her son, and her standing in St. Petersburg's glittering Imperial society — for a passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky. Set against the sweeping backdrop of 19th-century Russia, Leo Tolstoy constructs a dual narrative that runs in counterpoint: Anna's tragic descent into obsession and social ruin alongside the quieter, more redemptive spiritual journey of the landowner Levin, who searches for meaning in faith, love, and honest labour. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina stands as the supreme achievement of Tolstoy's realist mastery — a work that dissects marriage, infidelity, class, and the hypocrisies of polite society with surgical precision and profound compassion. The famous opening declaration — All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way — signals the novel's vast moral ambition from its very first line. Tolstoy's prose moves with an almost cinematic fluidity between drawing rooms and country estates, ballrooms and railway platforms, binding the intimate and the epic into a single, indissoluble vision. This handsome two-volume edition presents one of world literature's most enduring and devastating works in a form worthy of its stature — the question it poses, of how one truly ought to live, remains as urgent and unanswered as ever.