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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

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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 jealousy 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 - and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself. This translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky has been acclaimed as the definitive English version of Tolstoy's masterpiece. The volume contains an introduction and a preface by John Bayley.

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Leo Tolstoy

Language

English

ISBN

9780140449174

Number of pages

864

Publisher

Penguin UK

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Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Teach French and unteach sincerity.
All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.
The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
Spring is the time of plans and projects.
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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