Anna Karenina Illustrated

Anna Karenina is widely regarded as one of the great 19th century novels and one of the most significant books ever written. Through the lives of an extended family of Russian aristocrats and their excesses, affairs, and other struggles, it explores the extreme changes occurring in Russian society as well as timeless themes such as love, marriage, jealousy, and death.Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many authors consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever written, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger.

Anna Karenina (Russian: «Анна Каренина»; Russian pronunciation: [ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə])[1] is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's unpopular views of volunteers going to Serbia); therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form in 1878. Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first true novel, when he came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared it to be flawless as a work of art. His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style, and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as the best ever written.[2] The novel is currently enjoying popularity, as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in The Top Ten in Time, which declared that Anna Karenina is the greatest novel ever written

Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, this is the story of a wife, Anna Karenina, who abandons her empty existence as the wife of a Petersburg government minister for a passionate relationship with a young officer, Count Vronsky.

Widely considered a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first real novel and Dostoevsky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as "the best ever written". The novel is currently enjoying enormous popularity, as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in The Top Ten, which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written". A bachelor, Vronsky is willing to marry her if she would agree to leave her husband Karenin, a government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, her own insecurities and Karenin's indecision. Although Vronsky eventually takes Anna to Europe where they can be together, they have trouble making friends. Back in Russia, she is shunned, becoming further isolated and anxious, while Vronsky pursues his social life. Despite Vronsky's reassurances she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity. About the Garnett translation: Constance Garnett's translation of Anna Karenina is still among the best. Some scholars feel that her language is closer to the 19th-century sense of the original. Garnett translated seventy volumes of Russian prose for publication, including all of Dostoyevsky's novels. A friend of Garnett's, D. H. Lawrence, was in awe of her matter-of-fact endurance, recalling her "sitting out in the garden turning out reams of her marvelous translations from the Russian. She would finish a page, and throw it off on a pile on the floor without looking up, and start a new page. That pile would be this high--really, almost up to her knees, and all magical."

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The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” 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 thereby exposes herself to 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 qualities of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This authoritative edition, which received the PEN Translation Prize and was an Oprah Book Club™ selection, also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this Anna Karenina will be the definitive text for fans of the film and generations to come. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition also features French flaps and deckle-edged paper. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Im Hause der Oblonskiy herrschte allgemeine Verwirrung. Die Dame des Hauses hatte in Erfahrung gebracht, daß ihr Gatte mit der im Hause gewesenen französischen Gouvernante ein Verhältnis unterhalten, und ihm erklärt, sie könne fürderhin nicht mehr mit ihm unter einem Dache bleiben. Diese Situation währte bereits seit drei Tagen und sie wurde nicht allein von den beiden Ehegatten selbst, nein auch von allen Familienmitgliedern und dem Personal aufs Peinlichste empfunden. Sie alle fühlten, daß in ihrem Zusammenleben kein höherer Gedanke mehr liege, daß die Leute, welche auf jeder Poststation sich zufällig träfen, noch enger zu einander gehörten, als sie, die Glieder der Familie selbst, und das im Hause geborene und aufgewachsene Gesinde der Oblonskiy. Die Herrin des Hauses verließ ihre Gemächer nicht, der Gebieter war schon seit drei Tagen abwesend. Die Kinder liefen wie verwaist im ganzen Hause umher, die Engländerin schalt auf die Wirtschafterin und schrieb an eine Freundin, diese möchte ihr eine neue Stellung verschaffen, der Koch hatte bereits seit gestern um die Mittagszeit das Haus verlassen und die Köchin, sowie der Kutscher hatten ihre Rechnungen eingereicht. Am dritten Tage nach der Scene erwachte der Fürst Stefan Arkadjewitsch Oblonskiy — Stiwa hieß er in der Welt — um die gewöhnliche Stunde, das heißt um acht Uhr morgens, aber nicht im Schlafzimmer seiner Gattin, sondern in seinem Kabinett auf dem Saffiandiwan. Er wandte seinen vollen verweichlichten Leib auf den Sprungfedern des Diwans, als wünsche er noch weiter zu schlafen, während er von der andern Seite innig ein Kissen umfaßte und an die Wange drückte. Plötzlich aber sprang er empor, setzte sich aufrecht und öffnete die Augen.