Anna Karenina II

Anna Karenina (3 volumes) #2

by Leo Tolstoy, Sigurd Agrell (Translator), Gunnar Brusewitz (Illustrator)

Anna Karenina I
Anna Karenina III

Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.

Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.

Genres: Classics

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1877

About the author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reviews

[Linnéa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Första gången jag läste Anna Karenina var jag kanske för ung och inte redo för den. Jag minns den som en fin läsupplevelse men jag kunde nu, 15 år senare, knappt komma ihåg berättelsen mer än i väldigt stora drag.

Känslan efter att ha läst den nu: hur skulle jag någonsin kunna glömma Anna Karenina, Levin, Vronskij och alla de andra karaktärerna? Boken är väldigt lång men jag ville ändå ha mer när den var slut. Blir lycklig av tanken på att någonsin få uppleva en lika levande roman igen.

”Alla lyckliga familjer är varandra lika, men den olyckliga familjen är alltid olycklig på sitt speciella sätt.”

[beecharmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tecknet för att man läst en odödlig roman är att den mänskliga kärnan är igenkännbar, även om tid har förändrat sociala normer och samhällsregler. Anna Karenina är just en sådan roman. Mästerligt!

[Whitney Mccullough · Rating 5 out of 5]

my all time favorite book.

[Miku · Rating 2 out of 5]

リョーヴィン夫妻が普通で良い。

[Halvor (Raknes) · Rating 4 out of 5]

My review is here.