Overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density in Anna Karenina, translated here by Louise and Aylmer Maude, with Introduction and Notes by E.B. Greenwood, University of Kent. Its heroine remains one of the most loved and memorable in literature. Tolstoy himself regarded it as his first real attempt at the novel form, and through it he examines society at every level – questions of destiny, death, human relationships, and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. Although the story ends in tragedy and carries much that evokes despair, it is matched throughout by an abounding joy in life’s fleeting pleasures and a rich vein of comic relief.
ISBN 13: 9781853262715
Author: Leo Tolstoy
