Anna Karenina [J0385]

2002 french-flap PB reprint of the 1878 original classic, in nice clean condition. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up by falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval: Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian milieu, but it still belongs entirely to the woman whose name it bears, whose portrait is one of the truest ever made by a writer.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Amazing. Such insight into the human condition, purpose, and being. Many portions seemed to written for our current day and time. Highly recommended read!"; "Tolstoy wrote characters like no other. He wrote people who were so real, every part of this story was believable. I keep wondering how he understood so much."; "Wow. I was always a little scared of this book's length and setting. But it was amazing and very hard to put down. Probably among the top 10 books of fiction I have read."