There were places where I thought 'if I don't give Alexey Alexandrovitch the respect that he deserves in my reading of this scene, a critical part of the book will be ruined. But when I agreed to read it for Audible, I had no idea how much work it would be, how intense it would be, and how deeply I would fall in love with it. The artwork used for the cover is 'Portrait of a Young Woman' by Aleksey Kolesov." Anna Karenina is one of my favorite books. Production notes: This ebook of Anna Karenina was published by Global Grey in 2020, and updated on the 3rd January 2023. This translation by Constance Garnett was first published in 1901. This book has 350,718 words, 706 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1877. № 27 in The Guardian's 100 Greatest Novels Of All Time. Drawing on his own aristocratic upbringing to set the scene for the novel, it is widely believed that the character of Konstantin Levin was based on his own experiences and struggles with religion. Tolstoy’s second novel, it was significant in cementing his role as the primary Russian author of his age. Anna Karenina was first serialized over five years in The Russian Messenger, and then published as a two-volume novel in 1878.
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. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Or read online.ĭescribed 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. You can now buy the Entire Collection of over 2,400 ebooks for only £15! Anna Karenina Leo TolstoyĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle (mobi and AZW3) ebook formats.
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