![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The world is still an awfully harsh place to those who step out of line or who cannot enter into prescribed ways of thinking and feeling.Īnna Karenina and War and Peace are often described as very different novels, and that is true. ![]() And the targets and outward forms of social disapproval may be different now to what they were then, but they nevertheless exist. Its characters are among the most memorable ever created. The world it depicts and dissects remains fascinating in itself. Anna Karenina is a novel that beguiles and intrigues. What can it possiby have to say to us now? After all, it’s a novel written originally in Russian in the nineteenth century by an aristocrat about people falling in and out of love, when moral conventions and society’s strictures were different to what they are today, when divorce was rare and adultery could lead to social annihilation. It is entirely legitimate to ask ourselves why we should bother to read Anna Karenina. It is beautifully presented by Alma Classics, and includes an interesting preface and translators’ note, informative notes to the text and useful extra material on Tolstoy’s life and works. This is a wonderful new translation of Tolstoy’s great novel that should enthrall a new generation of readers. ![]()
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