TY - BOOK ID - 64398800 TI - Anna Karenina : a novel in eight parts AU - Tolstoy, Leo AU - Pevear, Richard AU - Volokhonsky, Larissa. PY - 2004 SN - 1101042478 0143035002 PB - East Rutherford : Penguin Publishing Group, DB - UniCat KW - Married women--Fiction.. KW - Adultery--Fiction.. KW - Russia--Fiction. KW - Married women KW - Adultery KW - Russia KW - Romance fiction, Russian. KW - Upper class KW - Karenina, Anna KW - Social conditions KW - Social life and customs KW - Love stories, Russian KW - Russian romance fiction KW - Russian fiction KW - Fashionable society KW - High society KW - Society, High KW - Upper classes KW - Social classes KW - Anna Karenina KW - Russie KW - Rossīi︠a︡ KW - Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ KW - Russia (Provisional government, 1917) KW - Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) KW - Russland KW - Ṛusastan KW - Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) KW - Russian Empire KW - Rosja KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) KW - Romance-language fiction, Russian. KW - Romance-language fiction. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:64398800 AB - 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 must endure 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, quality of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This award-winning team's authoritative edition also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this Anna Karenina will be the definitive text for generations to come. ER -