Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as 'flawless,' Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features the acclaimed translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, which preserves the robust and sometimes shocking qualities of Tolstoy's original voice, and includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes.

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