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Title: Anna Karenina: A Novel in Eight Parts by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ISBN: 0-14-200027-2 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (204 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Edition of a Great Story
Comment: This Edition, Pevear and Volokhonsky (Viking 2001), supposedly renders Tolstoy's Russian more faithfully than earlier ones, which attempted to "soften" him a bit for Western sensibilities. I actually bought this for a class, and my teacher, who reads it in the Russian, simply couldn't praise the translation enough, so if you're determined to read Anna Karenina already, you should probably get this edition.
As for the story, I found that the 800 pages just melted away. Long doesn't mean hard, after all, and I was sorry to see it end, to tell the truth.
The story revolves around seven different people in 1870s Russia. Superficially, it tells how Anna Karenina left her husband for another man, destroying her family, how Stiva Oblonsky ruined his family without leaving it, and how Konstantin Levin courted Kitty Shcherbatsky and they built a new family together.
Although it's enjoyable even on the superficial level, Anna Karenina rewards careful study, revealing intricate structure and interlocking symbolism throughout. Tolstoy thought it was his best work; critics have called it one of the best novels ever written; don't miss it.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Enlightening Immersion into Everyday Life
Comment: Anna Karenina provides well a window into the rich diversity and complexity within human nature. Tolstoy, relentlessly rich in details, paints characters so deep and natural, that as a reader, I could relate with all the characters, at least in some way.
Their emotions and problems are real: Anna and her adulterous love affair with Vronsky, and Lenin, with his painful pursuit of purpose in this life. Oblonsky struggles to find substance in his "play-acted" life, and Kitty realizes only too late she spurned the man she truly loves. One could go on and on...so much life and human color is contained within the pages.
The novel is down to earth and beautifully written, and provides a wonderful depiction of 19th century Russia.
If you struggle in relationships, question God, or doubt the purpose of it all, this book is for you. I promise you'll find yourself in all the characters...I sure did.
Rating: 5
Summary: Quite Simply, The Greatest Novel Ever Written
Comment: If you read one book in your life, Anna Karenina should be that book.
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Title: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett ISBN: 0553211757 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary Edmonds ISBN: 0140444173 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: October, 1982 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Konstanfin Mochulski ISBN: 0553212168 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1984 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert ISBN: 0553213415 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1982 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Idiot (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alan Myers, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky ISBN: 0192834118 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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