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“ANNA KARENIN” is a novel by Leo Tolstoy. Written during the period of 1873–1877, it became the author’s trademark. This is the translation by Constance Garnett, which undoubtedly belongs to the best translations of the book ever published. The plot is sophisticated and has several levels in which numerous characters are engaged. Everything starts when the protagonist who gave the title to the book comes to visit her brother. In a conversation, Tolstoy said, “I often think of the incident near the watchtower in Moscow, which I described in ‘Anna Karenina’ and then removed for the sake of a more coherent narrative. They had to shoot a horse with its spine broken. I think you remember. But not a single military man appeared to have a revolver, though many officers and even the governor were present. They called for a police officer, who turned out to have nothing but a leather case. They asked for a saber, a sword. But the officers only had ceremonial arms. All the swords and sabers were wooden… At long last, an officer who lived nearby fetched a revolver from his home, and they finally finished the horse. Everybody felt so safe back then!” Tolstoy went through the haymaking routine depicted in “Anna Karenina” every summer with a group of mowers. He did it on the conditions that applied to peasants—two parts belonged to the landowner, i.e. Countess Sofia and her sons, and one was his. He brought his part of the hay to his village for the poorest peasants. The book offers you some food for thought: -“In love there is no more and no less.” -“…women with a shadow usually come to a bad end…” -“…they're all in love with her, and follow her about like shadows?” -“If no one follows us about like a shadow, that's no proof that we've any right to blame her.” The book includes more than 40 illustrations.

Anna Karenina is the tragic story of Countess Anna Karenina, a married noblewoman and socialite, and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though she would experience less tolerance by others.

Winner: Audible's Best of 2016 - Classic "Anna Karenina is one of my favorite books. But when I agreed to read it for Audible, I had no idea how much work it would be, how intense it would be, and how deeply I would fall in love with it. There were places where I thought 'if I don't give Alexey Alexandrovitch the respect that he deserves in my reading of this scene, a critical part of the book will be ruined. If I don't give EVERYONE the utmost respect and understanding, I'm not doing justice to this brilliantly compassionate book.' But at the same time, I also wanted to have a light touch in the way I played the different characters, so that the magnificence of the novel could shine through. I feel like performing this novel is one of the major accomplishments of my work life - it was so challenging and so deep, a real pleasure." (Narrator Maggie Gyllenhaal) Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky. Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight, The Honourable Woman) cites Tolstoy's epic as one of her favorite books of all time, and her love for the literature permeates her performance. Anna Karenina is a masterpiece not only because of the unforgettable woman at its core and the stark drama of her fate but also because it explores and illuminates the deepest questions about how to live a fulfilled life.

Text printed with characters that relieve reading fatigueCount Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.“Anna Karenina” publication date: 1877Translation by Constance Clara Garnett (19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946)

Although from its appearance it was received like a reaction against the French naturalistic movement, Tolstoy follows in Anna Karénina the naturalism ways until overcome, when not considering this one an end in itself. Classified as the last novel of the author's first style, it is the first in which the continuous moral crisis that the writer suffered at that time is revealed. Anna Karenina, shocking story of adultery in the field of Russian high society of the time. In it Tolstoy reflects his vision of urban society, a symbol of vices and sin, as opposed to the healthy life of nature and the countryside. Ana Karenina is a victim of that foolish and pathological world of the city, which has become a key figure in world literature.