Anna Karenina
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4.5 • 144 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, “Anna Karenina” is Tolstoy’s classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, “We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life.”
The best novel ever written. —William Faulkner
A perfect work of art. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One of the greatest love stories in world literature. —Vladimir Nabokov
To read him… is to find one’s way home… to everything within us that is fundamental and sane. —Thomas Mann
Customer Reviews
Anna Karenina in a SF, coffee shop.
I read this book front to back in 2014-2015. It took me at least 18 months to get to the last paragraph. 900 pages at least. Not a novella, but a novel. Netflix, of it’s time. -HWF, Viva Los Gigantes, Sky blue, baby!
A True Masterpiece
Don’t be intimidated by the length of this novel or by the sometimes confusing Russian names. This book is a true masterpiece and well worth the time and effort to read.
Loved this
Tough to get around the Russian names but obviously great story and intriguing characters and time.