Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
Leo Tolstoy, David Magarshack (Translator), Priscilla Meyer (Introduction),Paperback - Reissue, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Leo Tolstoy, David Magarshack (Translator), Priscilla Meyer (Introduction),Paperback - Reissue, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780451528612
Publish date: 28-11-2002
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Drama,
19th Century,
Russian Literature
I love the feeling of accomplishment after finishing a huge book, not to mention one from the literary canon I'd hoped to read for a while. Even better is finding out said book is pleasurable and earns every bit of praise and prestige heaped on it. This book had me from page one and never lost me....
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Good Lord! Did it really take me a month to finish reading a book?Well, yes, what else was I expecting with a 808 page paperback? What was I looking forward to with a Tolstoy Classic? I still remember how much for months I was wanting to start reading Anna Karenina. And the moment I got myself a cop...
How can one man understand so much about human nature and portray it so vividly and so beautifully? Tolstoy seems to have lived a thousand lives. Whether he is telling the thoughts of a mother as she gives birth, the reasoning's of a man who is trying to find meaning in the conflicting worlds of sci...