Anna Karenina
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- ISBN13: 9780143035008
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Anna Karenina tells of the doomed like affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must suffer the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel’s seven major characters make a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on like and family tree happiness. While previous versions have softened the robust, and sometimes shocking, quality of Tolstoy’s writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a translation right to his powerful voice. This award-winning team’s authoritative edition also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Gorgeous, vigorous, and eminently readable, this Anna Karenina will be the definitive text for generations to come.Amazon.com Review
Some people say Anna Karenina is the single greatest novel ever written, which makes about as much sense to me as trying to determine the world’s greatest color. But there is no doubt that Anna Karenina, generally considered Tolstoy’s best book, is certainly one ripping fantastic read. Anna, miserable in her loveless marriage, does the barely thinkable and succumbs to her desires for the dashing Vronsky. I don’t want to give away the ending, but I will say that 19th-century Russia doesn’t take well to that sort of thing.
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When I selected up Anna Karenina, I thought I might have establish a treasure. But, after I ongoing reading it, I establish the book to be incredibly dull and hard to follow. There were too many details, none of which were that appealing. I kept skipping through pages of words that seemed to drone on and on just to end the tale. It was a tedious text and extremely disappointing.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
lot alike. This is my first time reading Anna Karenina. I’ve been dyin’ to read this book.
In the past I’ve reasonably loved Pevear and Volokhonsky, because I don’t know who wrote what, and both of them are smashing authors. We get two perspectives on Anna and Vronsky, dipping and coiling, luring home answers this side of miraculous. If there’s such a character as ‘God’, then gimme his favorite book. Anna Karenina, the English version surpassing all others.
–I’m sure the previous reviewer thought Leonard Kent got the same voice–and shut up entirely–Tolstoy rules!
Yeah, we’re all pretty glorious re-interpreting a name’s voice when explaining God’s final, glorious masterpiece.
. . . in my opinion anyway . . .
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Well, it was a long, long time ago and I wanted to get a fantastic Russian Novel under my belt. War and Peace was too darn long, so I thought I’d try this one.
It took me about a month to get Count Veronski separate from Prince Rodonkski. And then there was Colonel Radzinokovek and Captain Chaknoskonovick. Hey who can spell Checkoslovakia?
By the time I got all the names straight I forgot what the tale was all about. Basically it is about this rich broad who cheats on her spouse, becomes a huge disgrace at the Palace and then gets run over by a horse and carriage.
I finished it. I know I should read War and Peace. It is a classic you know. But I reflect that I would rather read the Encyclopedia Bertanica. Right now I’m reading Crime and Punishment. I reflect that I have been reading this one for three years now. I am on page 73. Raskolnikov is in this book also. This book has 564 pages. Don’t wait for my review. It will probably be a while. But I am determined. After all I finished Anna Karenina didn’t I!
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Hmmm…what to say indeed. Well, this could be an OK tale if, you know, it was a fleeting tale. Basically not much happens and a lot of the tale describes the land and how Levin is so wonderful and devoted to his wife. Some whould say that this is superb literary thechnique, I say that if you are publishing a novel, let it have a tale line. Anna’s hardly even in the tale anyway. Most would argue that Levin (the goodie two shoes) is the protagonist because he represents Tolstoy’s view of Russia.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Hmmm…what to say indeed. Well, this could be an OK tale if, you know, it was a fleeting tale. Basically not much happens and a lot of the tale describes the land and how Levin is so wonderful and devoted to his wife. Some whould say that this is superb literary thechnique, I say that if you are publishing a novel, let it have a tale line. Anna’s hardly even in the tale anyway. Most would argue that Levin (the goodie two shoes) is the protagonist because he represents Tolstoy’s view of Russia.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5