Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series): Leo Tolstoy

anna Karenina Is A Novel By The Russian Writer Leo Tolstoy, Published In The 1870s, Although It Was First Published In The Complete Form Years Later. Anna Karenina Is Widely Considered As A Pinnacle In Realist Fiction. Dostoevsky Stated It Was Flawless As A Work Of Art. The Novel Was Translated Into Many Languages And Adapted Into Film Many Times In Different Countries. dolores M. Koch - Criticas originally Written In 1875, This Is One Of The Most Distinguished Classic Works Of World Literature. Several Films, Dramas, And Ballets Have Been Based On Tolstoi's (as Spelled In Spanish) Intense, Passionate Love Story. Ana, One Of The Most Notable Literary Characters Ever Created, Is Married To A Russian Minister But Falls In Love With Count Vronski, A Rich And Handsome Young Army Officer. Against Society's Norms, She Abandons Her Husband And Son, With Dire Results. In This Excellent Recording, The Story Is Fully Dramatized By A Group Of Actors: Milagros Del Valle Is Ana, And Fonolibro's Arquimedes Rivero Is Vronski. Their Voices Are Appropriate And Devoid Of Regional Accents. With Background Music And Narration That Shows The Full Emotional Style Of A radionovela (radio Soap Operas), This Audio Is An Easy Way To Get To Know This Perennial Classic. Recommended For Bookstores And Public Libraries. -dolores M. Koch, New York City 'One of the greatest love stories in world literature' Vladimir Nabokov Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials form the backdrop for a similar quest, Tolstoy creates a rich and complex masterpiece that has captured the imagination of readers for decades. 'I've read and re-read this novel and every time I find another layer in the story' Philippa Gregory TRANSLATED BY LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE VINTAGE CLASSICS RUSSIAN SERIES - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history. Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall. In this extraordinary novel Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it. Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness. Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life 7F 13 and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage The classic nineteenth-century Russian novel in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society