Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
by Leo Tolstoy
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Author: Leo TolstoyTranslator: Richard Pevear
Translator: Larissa Volokhonsky
Edition: Paperback
Audio: Russian (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-05
ISBN: 0143035002
Number of pages: 864
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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- ISBN13: 9780143035008
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Book Reviews of Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
Book Review: Everything of genius is simple
Summary: 5 Stars
There are several love stories in the novel, but I see it more as a one story about love in the time of social boundaries. Karenina is married to a man she loves, but isn't in love with anymore. When she meets "the one", she thinks nothing should or would stop her from starting a new life. However she is also a mother and the two loves, that of a woman and of a mother, pulls her heart apart.
The way Tolstoy takes the reader through their lives and thoughts is a true work of genius. You can relate and understand almost every one of them, because you know what it feels like to do or say the things they do or say. You know what it's like to fight with the ones you love the most, to give up something you've been looking for your whole life, to wonder whether all of it is real or just a dream...
Summary of Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
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 must endure 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. While previous versions have softened the robust, and sometimes shocking, quality of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This award-winning team's authoritative edition also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this Anna Karenina will be the definitive text for generations to come.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 definitely one ripping great 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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