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Anna Karenina ( 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 negative views of Russian volunteers going to fight in 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, after he came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared it "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 remains popular, as demonstrated by a 2007 Time poll of 125 contemporary authors in which Anna Karenina was voted the "greatest book ever written."

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February 2, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 594 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1984306383
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984306388
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.35 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.69 x 1.34 x 9.61 inches

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The subtitle of Richard Garnett's biography (reissued in Faber Finds) of his grandmother, Constance Garnett (1861-1946) is A Heroic Life. It couldn't be more apt. She remains the most prolific English translator of Russian literature: twelve volumes of Dostoevsky, five of Gogol, six of Herzen (his complete My Past and Thoughts), seventeen of Tchehov (her spelling), five of Tolstoy, eleven of Turgenev and so on. Many of these will be appearing in Faber Finds. In all she translated over sixty works. It is not, however, the sheer quantity that is to be celebrated, though that in itself is remarkable, it is more the enduring quality of her work. Of course there have been critics - translation is a peculiarly controversial subject, but there have been many more admirers. Tolstoy himself praised her. Of her Turgenev translations, Joseph Conrad said 'Turgeniev (sic) for me is Constance Garnett and Constance Garnett is Turgeniev'. Katherine Mansfield declared the lives of her generation of writers were transformed by Constance Garnett's translations, and H. E. Bates went so far as to say that modern English Literature itself could not have been what it is without her translations.
This extraordinary achievement was accomplished despite poor health and poor eyesight, the latter being ruined by her labours on War and Peace, a tragic if fitting sacrifice; her's indeed was A Heroic Life.
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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) wrote two of the great novels of the nineteenth century, War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
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Jen R

Such a great read!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 8, 2015

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Oh Anna Karenina why have I not read you before now? Well I know why I didn't. I have had Anna Karenina on my to read list probably since the last movie came out. I remember seeing the preview for that and seeing Anna getting on a train all bundled up with snow on the ground and I just loved the imagery. I loved it so much I thought oh I should read this book (I didn't watch the movie though which now seems odd, but oh well). I knew next to nothing about the plot besides Anna has an affair with someone. That is it. So I put it on my to read list, but kept shying away from it. Why? Well I thought it would be really dense and heavy to read. It is a longer book and I thought it would take forever to get through since it would be really slow going. Man was I wrong! I loved it from the first page. Absolutely loved it. I will say if you do not enjoy it right away you might as well stop reading. It doesn't get "better." It is the same kind of ridiculous entertaining verbose story that goes off on great tangents all the time from the first page to the last. It was such a great read.

So as I said I was hooked from page one. The story just had me chuckling all the time. The people just seem so ridiculous! In a way that I loved. I love books set and/or written back in the day. I love reading what people thought at the time and see how characters act and whatnot. This book was just great for that. All of the main characters are just so fickle and I loved reading it. Although I will say the book is more about Levin than Anna. I see where Anna would be the title character since it is kind of about how she effects everyone else with what she does, but I wouldn't say the story is really about her. I loved Levin. I read some other reviews and saw that a lot of people did not enjoy all the farming talk from Levin in the country on his farm, but I loved it. Those were some of my favorite parts of the book. Levin in the fields harvesting his crops with the peasants, talking about farming and what he needs to do, etc. It was so interesting to me and I just really enjoyed him as a character and his views on things. I loved him from the start where he says how he loved this one family and

"He felt, as it were, that he had to be in love with one of the sisters, only he could not quite make out which."

How can you not love that? At first he thought he would love Dolly, but she married Stiva. Then the next sister, but she married quick too. That left Kitty so Kitty it was. It just entertains me so much to read stuff like this. Levin was no end to amusement with me. Really the whole book is like this. All the characters and everything that happens. Amazing.

Really I enjoyed reading most all of the characters. I loved how wishy washy they were. I loved how one look or one word would make them doubt their thoughts and feelings, but then two seconds later they would be sure again. It was a constant back and forth with all of them and it was great. Anna gets especially bad at this towards the end. Oh he loves me everything is great! Wait no, he tilted his head, he hates me and loves another! No wait, I am just being silly he loves me! And on and on. It was great. There were so many parts where I was just like this is amazing! This is so ridiculous and fun and I love it! The way everything is described, what happens, what people talk about, all of it was entertaining to me.

I don't really want to spoil anything if like me you managed to make it this far and not know what happens in this book so I don't want to talk to much about what happens. I will say there are a lot of tangents, a lot of snippets that don't necessarily need to be in there, a lot of random discussions and such that I can see where people might find it tedious, but I loved it. Sure there are discussions on politics and religion and such, but I enjoyed read them. Although I kind of wish it wouldn't have had the last section. I wish it would have ended the section before that as that to me was a perfect ending to the story. The last section didn't add much for me and I just kind of skimmed it, which is unfortunate since I was so enjoying the rest of the story. Really a great read that you should give a try. If you don't like it you don't like it, but if you love the first pages as I have you will love this book! It just gets better and better.

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Does this great classic really live up to the hype?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 3, 2013

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In opening, I want to endorse the idea of reading this novel on Kindle. This is a lonnnggg novel, and using Kindle allows one to avoid lugging around a hardcopy the size of a toaster. And . . . Tolstoy's (or the translator's) vocabulary is extensive and includes the obscure and archaic. Kindle allows one to instantly display word definitions without continually reaching for the dictionary (small dictionarys won't have some of these words). I read 74% of the book (another Kindle benefit, tracking your completion percentage) on a two week cruise. The Kindle method was a huge plus.

Now, about Anna Karenina. It's wriiten second person, told from the perspective of the 19th century Russian ruling class. Most of the characters are titled, and/or landowners, and/or published, and so on. Several themes and subplots are at play. In no particular order: Assorted romantic arrangements with broken hearts, broken families, busted finances, shunning, trysts, and a rare exceptional success. The Balken war. The interplay between the ruling class and the peasant class. Religion and the nature of worship and God. Family and chidbirth. Work ethic. Horses and horse racing (in the absence of autos and auto racing). Substance abuse. Suicide. Good and bad advice. Foolish people.

That's all I'll say, avoiding re-explaining the plot. At the risk of incurring my readers' wrath, I will offer a few negative criticisms . . . .

The book could have achieved the same lessons and greatness without having been so darned long. Toward the last fourth or so, I was strongly impressed that the author was just "running on" and wasn't sure how, or if ever, he was going to wrap this up.

Secondly, Tolstoy really overdid it on the "knowing looks" and "reading his eyes" thing. Seemingly the characters could interpret no only truth or fiction, but often whole personalities and situations simply by a quick assessment of the gleam in their subject's eye. This was ubiquitous and became rather ridiculous. Would that I had such talent (really nobody does, at least as portrayed in the novel).

There are a BUNCH of characters, and the unfamiliar sounding Russian names don't help. I would like to say I had them all sorted out - but I don't think so.

And finally, the religion thing. Not a popular topic in book reviews, but it's not only in the novel, it is the culmination of the book. Tolstoy was a great mind, and took on a big responsibility in Anna Karenina to address the issues of religion, worship, and God. As Leon Uris was wont to do in Trinity, or William Golding in The Spire, Tolstoy shows thinly veiled and often witty disdain for organized religion and it's trappings, money, and control culture. I'm with him on this and felt that he came very, very close to defining true religion (in the Judeo-Christian sense). However, I'm a bit of a Bible scholar, and maintain that the great Tolstoy still missed hitting the bullseye. He dealt with ethical living, love for others, the "silent" but real presence of God and the quiet mysterious suggestions of what Christians refer to as the "Holy Spirit", but he was still inclined to sort out religion through the filter of what he had been raised in. He left a room unexplored - the much debated issue of obedience to God's commandments. Like 'em or hate 'em, they are there. I would like to have seen Tolstoy's thoughts on this . . . dealing for instance with issues sabbath-keeping (or not), or covetousness (present in the book), or with adultery (certainly present in this novel) - all these as weighed through the written requirements of the Judeo-Chritian scriptures. Again, not an easy subject, but Tolstoy was dealing with God and religion in spades as he closed the book. So how did the characters do (by inferrence, how are "we" doing?)

Great novel. Maybe a bit too long. Maybe not totally realistic or perfect - but close. Deals deeply and intelligently with a wide, wide, range of human topics.

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Caroline

Russian classic, but heavens it's dense

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 6, 2022

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After reading War and Peace last year, I though this would be a walk in the park. How wrong was I? There are many similar themes running through the 2 books; a loving family, a passionate unrequited first love, a young man struggling to find his meaning in life; a love of nature and observations about the fascinating minutiae of Russian society.

But heavens this book is dense. I found an hour's reading yielded 25 pages or so. And in those pages was a substantial amount of detail. Consider how many thoughts you have in one single day. How they veer around like a drunken bumper car. How, if you've had a knotty problem or an issue with someone that every action, reaction and course of action will be considered and ascribed meaning. Now put all that into a novel and you will understand just how dense this novel is.

If I never learn the many ways of harvesting hay, it will be too soon. At times this was more agricultural text book than 'The Archers' and I was bored.

Of course there are some wonderful moments - we see Russian society at its most political, it's bitchiest in its response to Anna. Anna, herself, is a wonderful character, beautiful and intelligent who eventually tears herself apart in considering the ways that Vronsky doesn't love her, ignoring that in fact he clearly does adore her.

But there are other elements of Anna's character that are not fleshed out - why does she pay no attention to her daughter? What causes self-possessed Anna to have such a crisis of confidence? This for me was never explained.

Instead Tolstoy chooses to focus on Levin, apparently a self-portrait and a man who thinks too damn much! Consider having won Kitty's affections and about to be married, has an introspective melt-down about the right shirt not being available and nearly calls the whole thing off. Thankfully he comes to his senses and spares the reader some 400 pages of soul-searching.

Sometimes books lose their hold on you as the years pass. For me the spell of Anna Karenina has been well and truly broken.

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Pet

Tedious and boring, has not stood the test of time

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 8, 2020

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I know it’s a classic - I’ve seen “Anna Karenina” plays, movies, ballet, opera and loved them all but this is just tedious and boring writing despite the gripping subject matter. It has not stood the test of time and the references to Russian struggles of the society at the time are largely lost as it contains no footnotes to explain the political situation and terminology to a 21-century reader. I couldn’t finish it.

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Mondoro

A good adaptation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 31, 2012

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Trying to adapt a novel so rich in character and detail as 'Anna Karenina' in such a short compass is a daunting task, and inevitably there must be omissions. The secondary plot line of Levin and the Princess Kitty was chosen, and they are referred to only briefly on the third disc. This is a pity, as their relationship makes an important contrast to that of Anna and Vronsky. However, the adaptation successfully tells the central story of three essentially good people, Anna, Vronsky and Karenin, who become victims of a repressive social order that enshrines propriety and honour, and yet employs double standards to judge the behaviour of men and women. It uses Tolstoy's own technique of using multiple narrators providing different perpectives on the actions of the main characters, while linking together the various short scenes that make up the story. I would single out Alison Pettit's portrayal of the maid Annushka, a warm and sympathetic commentator on her mistress's plight. Turning to the three main characters, Teresa Gallagher has the dramatic range to move from peacemaker to her sister in law Dolly and her husband on the first disc to the woman driven to the depths of despair in the last disc. The last fifteen minutes of the recording are dramatically and brilliantly realised. Toby Stephens' presentation of Vronsky catches the complexity of the character suggested by Tolstoy; he is far from being the typical army officer. But it is Nicholas Farrell who emerges as the star in his portrayal of the conscientious but emotionally detached Karenin, labouring to create the new Russia in a period of repid change. To these principals I would add Cartolyn Jones' Princess Lydia, exhibiting the disngenuous piety of someone determined to do good, and the brittle nature of the sophisticated aristocratic milieu represented by Janet Maw's Princess Betsy. Credit should be given to Ed Thomasonm for including not just Tolstoy's remark about happy and unhappy families, but his observations about marriage relationships and the nature of Russian society, and indeed in conveying the esence of the novel in such a short space. I was minded to award four stars when Levin did not make an appearance, but the quality of the performance on disc has inclined me to give five stars.

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Katie Stevens

A wonderfully true, insightful classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 1, 2010

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This book was my first foray into Russian literature, and I could not have had a better introduction. Tolstoy has a way of phrasing the thoughts and feelings of the characters that is so insightful, precise and identifiable that it easily transcends the innumerable differences between a modern reader and the selection of people he focuses on living in nineteenth century Russia. They are all incredibly psychologically developed and I felt as if I knew them all personally and could predict how they might react in any given situation. Tolstoy also colours his narrative so that it is seen through the eyes of the different characters, giving the reader many different viewpoints from which to perceive events and settings and so making the novel very rich. A scene from the perspective of Oblonsky, for example, is light, frivolous and faintly cynical, whereas the same situation seen through Levin's eyes is thoughtful and earnest.

Unfortunately, while the human drama of the novel has stood the test of time admirably, much of Tolstoy's social commentary has not fared so well. The sections on social economy, agriculture and political systems may have ben fascinating to a contemporary Russian reader but I found them lengthy, tedious, unnecessary and, dare I say it, dull. However, I'm more than willing to ignore the effect of these passages in light of the sheer brilliance of the rest of the book.

This particular translation (Penguin, 1954, this edition 2000) by Rosemary Edmonds is fantastic. Her prose is readable and appropriate, so that the book does not read like translated literature at all, but like any other nineteenth century novel. The illusion was so well-executed that the only time I was made aware that I wasn't reading original language literature was when characters discussed which pronouns to use to refer to one another, an aspect of language which is absent from modern English. Both the translation and the original writing make this a thoroughly excellent book.

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Sarah KL

Kindle Edition - Wonderful!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 5, 2010

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I'm reading this book due to being part of a book club. I probably would never have read it if it wasnt a)for the club and b) its a free download on the kindle. While I appreciate that the free edition is probably not as well translated as the more expensive editions, the story itself that Tolstoy creates goes beyond the mere difference in translation. The way he weaves a very complex yet deeply stimulating image of Russian society, politics, economics, history, values etc, and how that impacts on the normal lives of various people is incredible and realistic. How I wonder what Tolstoy would make of our modern society now!

What I also love is how Tolstoy gives us not just the actions of the characters, but there innermost thoughts and feelings as well - including the odd dog or two!!! Utterly wonderful to feel and know exactly what each character is going through and when a character such as Anna does not think of something, it shows just how far into denial she really is.

I'm totally spellbound by this book and encourage others to eat it up too.
Its a free kindle download, so you'd be daft not too!

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