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ANNA KARENINA BY LEO TOLSTOY, FICTION, CLASSICS, LITERARY IBD

WILDSIDE PRESS
01 / 2004
9780809596812
Inglés

Sinopsis

Anna, miserable in a loveless marriage, succumbs to the desire for the dashing Vronsky. That sort of thing didn?t stand one in good stead in 19th-century Russia, bad goes to worse and the end Anna comes to is the stuff of legend. Tolstoy seamlessly captures a weaves a tapestry of Russian society -- as Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, 'We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art, we are to take it as a piece of life.'The novel remains popular, as demonstrated by a 2007 poll of 125 contemporary authors in Time, which declared that Anna Karenina is the 'greatest book ever written.' Anna Karenina may be the greatest single novel ever written, it may also be just plainly and sublimely good. Regardless, there is no doubt that Anna Karenina (generally considered Tolstoy?s finest novel) is a sublime achievement.