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Title: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Mona Simpson ISBN: 0-679-78330-X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (208 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Why call it a masterpiece?
Comment: Why in the heck do I insist on reading 19th century literature? Perhaps I like torture.
Ugh, I do not like this book. I've read so much, and so little of this book excites me or invokes a particular mood in me. Granted, I'll give Tolstoi credited for painting with such broad strokes of Russian culture, giving us glimpses of land-owners, men of state, the women repressed into their own petty emotions. But do I care about any of this?
The book is long as well, in the vein of 19th century novels, the century where authors were really just figuring out how to use the novel form effectively. Look to Thomas Hardy for a glimpse of someone who finally started to master the form. All in all, I like Pushkin a lot more than Tolstoi, and prefer the saavy of early 20th century modernists to the trappings and baroqueshness of these thick volumes.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great romantic tragedy
Comment: Anna Karenina is a young woman married to a powerful government minister living in Petersburg. But when she falls in love with the dashing Count Alexey Kirilich Vronsky, she becomes pregnant by him and leaves both her husband and her son Serezha to live with her lover. Despite the help of her friends, including her brother Oblonsky, a rather frequent seducer of married women, Anna is unable to get a divorce and is rejected by the society that once embraced her. Jealous of the double-standard that saves Vronsky from such public humiliation, Anna's constant suspicions threaten to kill their love as well.
Meanwhile, in a related story, Constantine Dmitrich Levin, a passionate but thoughtful young mane, seeks to marry the Princess Catherine Shcherbatskaya, known to her family and friends as Kitty. However, Kitty rejects Levin's first proposal because she believes the Vronsky, who had flirted with her before he met Anna, will return to marry her. Levin goes to the country, to write a book about agriculture and contemplate the will of God, while Kitty continues to wait for Vronsky.
ANNA KARENINA is a novel about love and marriage among the Russian aristocracy in the 1870s. Leo Tolstoy weaves the two love stories together to comments upon many of the social conditions of his era. In turning a critical eye on the aristocratic society where love and marriage can have nothing to do with each other, Tolstoy tries to follow up on the success of his previous and greatest novel, WAR AND PEACE. The title character of this novel may be a fallen woman, but Tolstoy's story brings down the high society that once adored her as well.
Rating: 4
Summary: Of Love, Disaster, Adultery, Socialism and Cheap Vodka
Comment: There is much dallying in the hayricks of the country, and in the regiments of the great cities! But luckily for 19th century Russia, DNA testing hasn't yet been invented, or everyone in Moscow and St. Petersburgh would discover that they are related!Even the trains are coupling--a portent of bad things to come, because Anna sees a man smashed between the two cars as they hook up. Anna realizes right off that this is not good!If Anna's Vronsky, (who is all wrongsky for her) really loved her, he would not have drawn her into this web of disaster, where she loses status and her beloved son.However, without Vronsky's dynamic pull, there would be no story.Anna Karenina is a testament to the adage that no one's life is ever so bad that they can't make it worse! A good read a la Madame Bovary!!!!!!
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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: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ISBN: 0374528373 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 14 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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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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