Serves Me Right

In the first volume of her acclaimed autobiography,A RIGHT ROYAL BASTARD,Sarah Miles described a childhood marked by dyslexia and the need to rebel against every institution in sight.While she was at one of them-RADA-she made a list of dreams and to her amazement found them coming true.Not only did she become a film star first time round with TERM OF TRIAL,but she was acting opposite the very manshe'd adored since her childhood memories of WUTHERING HEIGHTS,Laurence Olivier,and during filming in Paris,Sarah finally became Heathcliff's Cathy.The stress of keeping their relationship a secret finally took its toll,until her agent,frustrated because she was becoming a recluse,took her to a party where she met her knight in shining armour,Robert Bolt.

This is the second part of Sarah Miles's memoirs. While at RADA, Sarah made a dream list and to her amazement began ticking it off with relish. This book describes her affair with Laurence Olivier and her marriage to Robert Bolt.

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". Plot: 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 Maude translation: the translation by Aylmer Maude (1858-1938) and Louise Shanks Maude (1855-1939) is highly considered by scholars. This unabridged and annotated translation from the original russian by Louise and Aylmer Maude was originally published in 1918. The Maudes are classical translators of Leo Tolstoy who worked directly with the author and gained his personal endorsement.