Anna Karenina

　　Tolstoy startled the world with this powerful story ofadultery and its aftermath, of the human need for love andhappiness, and of the unyielding demands of society.

　　From Library Journal
　　Pevear and Volokhonsky, winners of the 1991 PEN/Book-of-the-MonthClub Translation Prize for their version of Fyodor Dostoyevsky'sThe Brothers Karamazov, have produced the first new translation ofLeo Tolstoy's classic Anna Karenina in 40 years. The result shouldmake the book accessible to a new generation of readers. In aninformative introduction, Pevear gives the reader a history of thework Tolstoy called his first true novel and which took him somefour years to write. Pevear explains how Tolstoy took real events,incorporated them into his novel, and went through several versionsbefore this tale of the married Anna and her love for Count Vronskyemerged in its final form in 1876. It was during the writing of thebook that Tolstoy went through a religious crisis in his life,which is reflected in this novel. The translation is easilyreadable and succeeds in bringing Tolstoy's masterpiece to lifeonce again. For all libraries. Ron Ratliff, Kansas State Univ.,Manhattan
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