Other editions of book Anna Karenina

The Franklin Library, "...the distributing arm of the publishing division The Franklin Press was the United States's largest distributor of public domain classic books produced in fine bindings for collectors until the company closed in 2000. Its books were designed and bound by The Sloves Organization, Ltd., From its founding in 1973 until its closing in 2000, the Franklin Library assembled titles into several series, each series consisting of 50 to 100 books. Customers subscribed to a particular series and received one book per month. It thus required more than eight years to complete a set of 100 titles, for example in The 100 Greatest Books of All Time series." --------------------------------------------- Here is a copy of Anna Karenina: A Novel by Leo Tolstoy translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude with painting of James Tissot Franklin Library "special content copyright 1980" This hardback book measures approx 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 and had 771 pages. It has a finely sewn binding. It has an olive green blue leather covered spine and decorative gold design on the spine and on the board's cloth covering. The end pages are decorated with a water-silk-like design. The page edges, on all three sides, are gold. There is a lovely silver satin ribbon bound in to use as a page-marker.

Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's negative views of Russian volunteers going to fight in Serbia); therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form in 1878. Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first true novel, after he came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared it "flawless as a work of art." His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style," and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as "the best ever written." The novel remains popular, as demonstrated by a 2007 poll of 125 contemporary authors in Time, which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest book ever written."

Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's negative views of Russian volunteers going to fight in Serbia); therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form in 1878. Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first true novel, after he came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared it "flawless as a work of art." His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style," and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as "the best ever written." The novel remains popular, as demonstrated by a 2007 poll of 125 contemporary authors in Time, which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest book ever written."

Love and tragedy can go hand in hand when a young man falls in love with already married aristocrat, Anna. She is reluctant to leave her husband for the new love interest due to laws and rules handed down by the state, the church and her social standing. Eventually the two flee to Italy where they can finally be free to be together but a great shunning begins and Anna must overcome the new problems.